Zhengxu Zhao

FRSA The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), is a learned society that champions innovation and progress across a multitude of sectors by fostering creativity, s ...

(; born February 1960, in

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

) is a Chinese engineer and computer scientist. He was educated with a BSc and MSc in Engineering at

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

, China, and PhD in Computing at

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, UK, and has held academic leadership posts in the UK and the People's Republic of China. He is a Fellow of the

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since 2015. After his PhD from the

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(UK) in 1992, and three years following his postdoctoral work at the University of Newcastle, he was appointed at the age of 35, Chair & full Professor of Applied Computing at the

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in the UK. Over a 16-year period there, he was also Department Chair in Computing and Chair of Academic Board and thereafter conferred a

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on the basis of his personal academic and research achievements in Information Technology and Applied Computing. He had also hold the Cheung Kong Professorship (

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) in Instrumentation Science & Engineering between 2001 and 2007 at

Southeast University Southeast University (SEU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Its precursor, ...

. Between October 2008 and September 2014, he was the founder and Dean of Faculty of Computing Science & Technology at

Shijiazhuang Tiedao University Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (abbreviated STDU, also known as Tieda and Tieyuan; ), is a national key university in China, specialised in transportation science, engineering and technology and information technology, etc. STDU is currently un ...

, where he had built the faculty from a near nil base to its current state of six Schools (including Computer Science, Digital Media, Informatics and Controls, Software Engineering, Networks Systems & Technology, Online Teaching & Learning) with courses ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate at BSc, MSc and PhD levels. Since October 2014, he has been the assistant Vice-Chancellor in charge of Teaching & Research and Computing & Information Technology. He is a senior member of British Computer Society and

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, a British Charted Engineer ( CEng) and

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, and a senior technical advisor to the

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towar ...

. Since 2008, he has been a Chief Scientist in Mission Control Systems at Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center and had participated more than twelve Chinese national space projects and mission control tasks of the

Chinese Lunar Exploration Program The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP; ), also known as the Chang'e Project () after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e, is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Engineering Program ...

, and Shenzhou Manned Spaceship Mission Programs. He is therefore recognized as The Technical Founder of China's Space Mission Visualization and is honored and credited in the national media as "

Chang'e Chang'e ( ; ), originally known as Heng'e (), is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Hou Yi, the great archer. Renowned for her beauty, Chang'e is also known for her ascending to the Moon with her pet Yu Tu, the Moon Rabbit and living in the Mo ...

Artist". He has over 270 research publications, conference presentations, five books and two patents to his credit and has supervised more than 60 PhD students and has examined nearly a hundred of PhD theses. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants, prizes and awards from academic bodies and organizations in the UK, USA, and China.

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Biography from Shijiazhuang Tiedao University
(Chinese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhao, Zhengxu 1960 births Living people Engineers from Shandong 21st-century Chinese engineers Educators from Shandong People from Qingdao 20th-century Chinese engineers Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts