Ding Lieyun (; born 22 November 1955) is a Chinese management scientist and educator. He served as the president of

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

and is the current president of

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First-Cl ...

. He was elected a member of

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...

in 2015.

Life and career

Ding was born on 22 November 1955 in

Honghu Honghu () is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the central south of Hubei province. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the ...

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

. He completed his undergraduate study in Wuhan College of Building Materials Industry in 1982, and received his master of industrial management engineering from

Wuhan Polytechnic University Wuhan Polytechnic University () is a provincial public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is located in the Evergreen Garden (Chang Qing Hua Yuan) real estate development north of Hankou, near Tianhe Airport. WHPU is a multidisciplinary compr ...

in 1987. In 2002, he got his doctor of industrial management engineering from Tongji University. He served as the vice-president of Wuhan Institute of Urban Construction from 1994 to 1999, and the president from 1999 to 2000. After he received his doctor's degree, he served as the vice-president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the director of the university's National Laboratory of Defense Technology from 2000 to 2003. Then he served as the

Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

Central China Normal University Central China Normal University (CCNU) is a public normal university located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Hubei Provincial People's Government. The university is part of Project ...

from 2003 to 2011, the president of Northeastern University from 2011 to 2014, and the president of HUST from 2014.

Research

Ding led the design of digital management systems of urban rail transit construction project in China. He proposed 3 kinds of system architecture based on Computer Integrated Construction. This system was used in the construction of

Shenyang Metro The Shenyang Metro is a rapid transit system part of the urban rail transit system of Shenyang, Liaoning, China. It currently covers 9 of the 10 municipal districts in Shenyang City (except Liaozhong District). Shenyang is the seventh city in Main ...

. Ding and his colleagues also developed a computer system to automatically identificate and pre-warn the security risks in rail transit construction.丁烈云,周诚.复杂环境下地铁施工安全风险自动识别与预警研究中国工程科学,2012,(第12期).

References

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