The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced the list of newly elected IEEE Fellow. Among the 321 winners from all over the world, the total amount of Chinese scholars is 52. What’s worth mentioning is that there are six USTC alumni elected IEEE Fellow this year, three of whom graduated from the School of Information Science and Technology. By far, the number of USTC graduated IEEE Fellow has reached a total amount of 29.

Dr. ZENG Fangang entered Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science in 1978. He received his Biomedical Engineering Master Degree from the Institute of Biophysics, CAS, in 1985, and then got his Ph. D Degree from Syracuse University in 1990. He is now professor of University of California, Irving.

Dr. LI Shipeng received both his Bachelor Degree and Master Degree of Electrical Engineering from USTC in the year 1988 and 1991, and he later took Ph. D Degree from Lehigh University in 1996. He is the only student that received Guo Muoruo Scholarship twice. Dr. LI is now Chief Research Fellow of Network Multimedia Group in Micro-Soft Research Asia (MSRA) and Technical Assistant of MSRA’s Director. His research mainly focuses on Signal and Image Processing, Image and Video Coding, Wireless Communication and Network etc.

Dr. SUN Qibin entered USTC in 1993 and got his Electronic Engineering Doctor Degree in 1997. He worked in Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore since 1996, and now serves on Hewlett-Packard Shanghai. He has by far published more than a hundred papers in the field of Media Security, Media Analysis, and Computer Vision etc.

Other three alumni are LI Kai (’81 Master Graduate), ZHU Songchun (’86 Dept. 11) and FAN Shanhui (’88 Dept. 00).