Brief Bio
Professor Guanrong (Ron) Chen received the M.Sc. degree in computational mathematics
from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, China in 1981, and the Ph.D.
degree in applied mathematics from Texas A&M University, USA in 1987. He
worked at Rice University as a visiting assistant professor in
1987-1990, at the University of Houston through tenure track till became
a tenured full professor in 1990-1999, and then at City University of
Hong Kong as a chair professor (new, "Shun Hing Education and Charity
Fund Chair Professorship in Engineering") and the founding director of
the Centre for Complexity and Complex Networks since year 2000.
Prof.
Chen was elected IEEE Fellow in 1997 (now, Life Fellow), for his fundamental contributions
to the theory and applications of chaos control and bifurcation
analysis, and became a Life Fellow in 2019. He was conferred Honorary Doctorates by Saint Petersburg
State University, Russia in 2011 and by University of Le Havre,
Normandy,
France in 2014. He was elected Member of the Acadamy of Europe (Academia
Europaea) in
2014 and Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Prof.
Chen's main research pursuit is in one of the focusing areas in
engineering - nonlinear systems control and dynamics, as well as complex
networks. He is the (co)author of more than 800 SCI journal papers and
300 conference abstracts, published since 1981, receiving more than 76,000
non-self-citations with h_index 138 according to Scopus, and is a
Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (since 2009) and also in
Mathematics currently according
to Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Web of Sciene). He is also the
(co)author and (co)editor of 33 technical books. He
received numerous prestigious awards, particularly the 2011 Euler Gold
Medal conferred by the Euler Foundation of Russia; 2008, 2012 and 2016 State Natural Science Awards of China; and 2010
Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Science and Technology Award. Other significant awards
include the 1993 Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award from the
University of Houston, the 1998 Harden-Simons Annual Prize for
Outstanding Journal Paper from the American Society of Engineering
Education, the 2001 IEEE M. Barry Carlton Best Annual Paper Award from
the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, the 2002 Best Paper
Award from the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the 2005 and 2022 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best
Annual Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the
2013 IET Premium Best Paper Award, and the 2019 President's Award from
City University of Hong Kong.
He served and is serving as
Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
(since 2010), Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
(2008-2011), Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of
Circuits Theory and Applications (2008-2009) and the IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems - II and -I (2004-2007), as Associate Editor for
several IEEE and international journals. He served as chairman and
organizer for many international workshops and conferences, and was the
Chairman of the Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee of
the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (1999-2001) and the Chairman of
the Complex Systems and Networks Technical Committee of the Chinese
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009-2014). In the
past, Prof. Chen was invited to give lectures and seminars in more than
40 countries. He is Honorary Professor, Advisory Professor and
Guest-Chair Professor of 30 some universities worldwide, including
Honorary Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina;
Honorary Professor of the Central Queensland University and University
of Ballarat, Australia; Honorary Professor of Tianjin University, China; Chang-Jiang Chair Professor of Peking University; Honorary
Advisory Professor of Fudan University; and Honorary Guest-Chair
Professor of Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology
of China, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Sun
Yat-sen University, among others.