Li Guojie (; born 29 May 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist who served as dean of the School of Computer and Control Engineering,

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Biography

Li was born in

Shaoyang Shaoyang (), formerly named Baoqing (Paoking) (), is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Hunan ...

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, on May 29, 1943. His father, Li Binqing (), was an educator who served as president of Shaodong County No.2 High School after the establishment of the Communist State. After high school in 1960, he was accepted to Hunan Agricultural Mechanization College. Because the school was closed, he was assigned to work as a mechanic in

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Iron and Steel Factory. In September 1962 he entered

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, majoring in the Department of Physics, where he graduated in 1968. In December 1968 he was assigned to a farm in southwest China's

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province. A year and a half later, he was assigned to a crystal factory in the suburb of the capital city

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. In February 1973, he was transferred to a computer factory in his home-city Shaoyang. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he earned his Master of Engineering degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in August 1981. He earned his doctor's degree at

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under the direction of Benjamin Wah. He was a researcher at the

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between August 1985 and December 1986. He returned to China in January 1987 and became a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In February 1990 he was appointed director of the State Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center by the State Scientific and Technological Commission. In 1995 he founded the Shuguang Information Industry Co., Ltd. He assumed the position of director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in December 1999, and remained dean until January 2011. In January 2012 he was chosen as dean of the School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was president of China Computer Federation (CCF). He was a delegate to the

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and

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. He was a delegate to the

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Personal life

Li married Zhang Dihua (), the daughter of Zhang Qixian (), an engineer who died in

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. The couple have a son named Li Gang (), and a daughter named Li Juan ().

Honours and awards

* 1994 Science and Technology Progress Award of the

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* 1995 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) * 1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) * November 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) * 2001 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) * 2004 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) * 2011 Fellow of

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References

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