IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapter Seminar by Professor MengChu Zhou of New Jersey Institute of Technology
On the morning of May 19, at the invitation of Professor Zhijie Liu, Professor MengChu Zhou, gave an academic presentation entitled " Performing Quality Research and Writing Quality Papers" through Tencent Conference. The lecture was hosted by Zhijie Liu. faculty members and more than 50 doctoral and master's degree students attended the lecture.
During the presentation, Professor MengChu Zhou shared his experience in how to perform high-quality research (especially Master thesis and doctoral dissertation related one) and write high-quality (easily-accepted) technical papers in English. Professor MengChu Zhou considered many students are sometimes wondering how to conduct their research and write quality technical papers; while faculty members may have questions about how to supervise their students. First, by learning from many other professionals including students, professors, engineers, managers and business leaders, Professor MengChu Zhou shared with the audience the speaker’s important lessons and useful experience through many real-life examples. Most of them are based on what the speaker has gained as a doctoral student, faculty member, listener of many talks, and reader/reviewer/editor of numerous papers, theses, books and proposals for three decades. Professor MengChu Zhou also summarized many common English errors and presentation problems we faculty and students tend to make. Finally, Professor MengChu Zhou indicated some critical points regarding how to become a responsible, contributing and happy professional and how to make the scientific and technological contributions to benefit human beings.
During the question-and-answer session, the teachers and students of the School of Automation actively asked questions, and Professor MengChu Zhou answered them one by one. In this lecture, Professor MengChu Zhou had a cordial academic exchange with the teachers and students of the Automation Institute. He cited their own research results and practical experience to give us enlightenment, so that the teachers and students of the Institute of Automation to further have a deeper understanding of how to conduct high-quality research and how to write high-quality technical papers in English. Finally, the report will be completed in the thunderous applause of all the teachers and students.
Brief introduction of the presenter:
MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation. He has over 900 publications including 12 books, 600+ journal papers (500+ in IEEE transactions), 29 patents and 29 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. was VP for Conferences and Meetings of IEEE SMC Society. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters and now Clarivate Analytics. He has over 42, 200 Google Scholar citations with H-index being 102. He is a recipient of Excellence in Research Prize and Medal from NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE SMC Society, and Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. He has been among most highly cited scholars since 2012 and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is Fellow of IEEE, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
