Professor Jun Wang
王鈞
FHKEng [2024]
Chair Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Data Science, City University of Hong Kong
- Life Fellow, IEEE
- Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition
- Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
- Recipient, Outstanding Achievement Award, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly, 2011
- Recipient, Neural Networks Pioneer Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2014
- Recipient, Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Achievement Award, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2016
- Recipient, Norbert Wiener Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, 2019
- Highly-cited Researcher, 2014,2019,2022-2024
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2014-2019
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Jun Wang has been a chair professor of computational intelligence at the City University of Hong Kong since 2016. Prior to this position, he held various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, University of North Dakota, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also held various short-term visiting positions at USAF Armstrong Laboratory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Dalian University of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University. He published about 340 journal papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics in 2014-2019. He served as an Associate Editor of three IEEE journals as a member of the editorial board of Neural Networks, the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Neural Systems. He was the General Chair of the 13th/25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing and the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of two IEEE societies. In addition, he served as President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) and many organizations such as the IEEE Fellow Committee; IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Awards Committee; IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Board of Governors. He is a recipient of the APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award (2011), IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2014), CAAI Wu Wenjun AI Achievement Award (2016), IEEE SMCS Norbert Wiener Award and Outstanding Contribution Award (2019), among other distinctions.
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