Professor Ron Chen Guanrong, Chair Professor of EE, has been elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries. The election is a recognition of Prof Chen’s outstanding contribution to science and its promotion in the developing world.
TWAS was founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the developing world, under the leadership of Abdus Salam, the Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize winner. The overarching mission of TWAS is to advance scientific excellence in developing countries. TWAS has some 1,150 elected Fellows from more than 90 countries and 15 of them are Nobel laureates.