Professor Stephen Boyd elected as expat academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

A certificate-granting ceremony was held in Beijing on 27th, November. Stephen Boyd, an American professor teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen — was announced as an expat academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are the country's top two think tanks that advise the government and industry on key scientific and technological issues. Stephen Boyd is among 18 expat academicians to be elected to the CAE this year. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the United States. The professor now teaches at Stanford University and CUHK -Shenzhen.

The professor is known for his pioneering research and achievements in convex optimization, a subfield of optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets, as well as his application of the theory to the fields of control, signal processing, finance and circuit design, among others.

Stephen Boyd has given over 100 lectures in China and supervised groups of research students who were visiting scholars. He will help deepen cooperation between CUHK-Shenzhen and top-tier universities while promote inspirational education of students and researchers in the theory and application of optimization.

 Professor Stephen Boyd is giving lessons to students in CUHK-Shenzhen.

Inauguration Ceremony for Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD).

INTRODUCTION:

Stephen P. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. He has courtesy appointments in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, and is member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. His current research focus is on convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, machine learning, and finance.

Professor Boyd received an AB degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in EECS from U. C. Berkeley in 1985. In 1985 he joined the faculty of Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department. He has held visiting Professor positions at Katholieke University (Leuven), McGill University (Montreal), Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne), Tsinghua University (Beijing), University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Kyoto University, Harbin Institute of Technology, NYU, MIT, UC Berkeley, CUHK-Shenzhen, and IMT Lucca. He holds honorary doctorates from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL).
 

Professor delivers a speech in Welcome ceremony in CUHK-Shenzhen

Since 1984, Stephen Boyd has been paying frequent visits to China. He has given over 100 lectures in China and supervised groups of research students who were visiting scholars. Boyd has been appointed as an adviser and honorary professor at multiple Chinese universities.