Professor Xu Shanjia Elected IEEE Fellow
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released its 2008 newly elected Fellows in November 2007 after strict evaluation. Professor Xu Shanjia from our University was elected and became the first faculty member at USTC who won this special honor because of his outstanding achievements in and great contribution to waveguide dielectric structure research.
IEEE is the world’s largest and most authoritative international academic organization which owns about 400,000 members and 39 chapters from 160 countries and regions around the world. It directs the latest development trends in technological areas such as Signal and Information Processing, Power Electronics, computer, communications, control, remote sensing, biomedicine, intelligent transportation and space science etc. It serves as the sources of scientific and technological innovation in these areas with its more than 800 technological standards being issued. IEEE hosts or sponsors over 300 international academic conferences each year, and the publications of its chapters are the most authoritative academic journals in the world and the first choice for those scientists and scholars in electrical and electronics engineering to get their latest research achievements published.
Professor Xu Shanjia graduated from USTC in 1965 and stayed to work here till today. In 1986 he was promoted professor directly from an instructor for his extraordinary accomplishments. He was conferred the honor of National Model Teacher in 2001. In 1990 Prof. Xu was granted to be Doctor Advisor by Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He was elected Member of New York Academy of Science and Deputy Chief-Editor of IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters in 1999. He is now a member of the Editorial Committee for over ten academic journals including Microwave Theory and Techniques. From 1983 to 1986 he was the visiting scholar to New York Institute of Technology in the U.S. From 1991 to 1993 he did research in collaboration with fellow colleagues at Würzburg University in Germany. From 1998 to 2000, he worked twice as professor at Tohoku University in Japan. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as a visiting professor at Kyushu University in Japan. He used to universities in the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, South Korea and Hongkong on invitation for lectures, visits or collaborative researches. For many times he assumed the office of honorary chairman, chairman, or member of technology commissions or International Advisory Committees, and president or member of strategic planning commissions or their branches. He used to be invited to report his findings at conferences.
Professor Xu has long conducted research and teaching in theory and technology of micro wave, millimeter wave, and light wave and has been responsible for many programs and scientific research sponsored by National Natural Science Funds, Fund of the State Education Commission of China, Fund of the State Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense Industry, or fund of China Ministry of Science and Technology, and many other ministries and commission. He has won innovative achievements acknowledged by his fellow colleagues home and abroad. He played an important role in the development of the communications satellite "Dongfanghong-3”, including the designing of its shaped antenna and feed network, the analysis of the radar cross section and the electromagnetic compatibility of early warning planes, the development of omni-directional Antenna featuring one-spot-with-muti-address communications and high accuracy positioning and tracking system based on multi sensors, and 1eft—handed medium which was regarded one of the top ten world Breakthrough in Science and Technology by Science the U.S. He has produced research results of great theoretical and practical significance. Owing to his distinguished contributions to science research, he won the first prize of National Natural Science in 1993, the first prize of Guanghua Science and Technology Awards in 1995, and in 2003 second prize of Anhui Natural Science. For three times, he was awarded the first prize of Best Scientific Papers in Anhui province. The year of 1981 and 1982 witnessed his winning of the second and third prize in CAS Significant Scientific Achievements Award. He has published in domestic or foreign journals up to 520 academic papers, among which over 350 have been embodied by the four index journals like SCI, EI, etc.
It is learned that there are only four persons in the mainland elected IEEE Fellow in 2008 and that all together only 30 plus IEEE Fellows are from mainland so far.