According to the latest information from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Prof. XU Shanjia of USTC is promoted as IEEE Life Fellow, which makes him the first IEEE Life Fellow in both USTC and Anhui Province.
IEEE Life Fellow is title conferred to those IEEE Fellows who age over 65 and contribute to the Institute over long years and thus have a sum of age and membership over 100. Prof. XU Shanjia was previously elected IEEE Fellow in 2008 due to his contribution in Dielectric Waveguiding Structure.
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Prof. XU Shanjia graduated from USTC in 1965 and has been working in USTC since then. He had served successively as vice dean of School of High Technology, dean of Department of Electronics Engineering and Information Science, deputy director of USTC Academic Committee. He has also been serving as vice chair of China Microwave Society, board of Anhui Academic Degrees Committee, and editor of a series of IEEE transactions and journals. Prof. XU has been long engaged in teaching and research in the field of microwave, millimeter-wave, and light wave theories and technologies. He has been receiving the government special allowance since 1992, and was entitled “National Model Teacher” by Ministry of Education in 2001. Prof. XU has won many academic awards including a first prize of CAS Nature Science Award. He has published over 560 papers at academic journals home and abroad.
