FAN JIANPING was elected as a member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), China Science Center of IEAS announced Tuesday.

Among this batch of newly elected academicians, there are three from Guangdong Province.

Professor Fan is currently the dean of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and director of the preparatory office of Shenzhen Institute of Technology. He used to be vice director of the Institute of Computing Technology and director of the National Engineering Center on High-performance Computing.

The honors Professor Fan has won include one first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, two second prizes of the same award, and three Outstanding Awards of CAS Science and Technology Progress. Not only that, but he also received the National Award for Youth in Science and Technology in 1994 and the Shenzhen Mayor’s Award in 2014.

Professor Fan is an expert in high-performance computing, cloud computing, and distributed and parallel computing. As the one in charge of the software parts, he was one of the inventors of the Dawning series supercomputers. The Dawning 1 has played a significant role in national security, meteorology, oil and other fields. Wang Daheng, a founding academician of the CAS, spoke highly of the Dawning supercomputers.

As a founding president of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Fan took the lead in implementing an enterprise-based operation system, which integrates research and production. The research team, with only five members at the very beginning, has grown to have 4,326 staffers by now. The current team is dedicated to cutting-edge scientific fields, such as neuroscience, synthetic biology, materials science and artificial intelligence.

The total number of enterprises the institute incubated has reached 1,188. Among them, 52 enterprises have a market value of more than 100 million yuan (US$15 million). Meanwhile, the total number of patent applications by the institute has reached 10,951.

Established in 1994, IEAS has over 600 academicians now. With its headquarters in Moscow, the academic organization has set up regional centers in 15 countries around the world. By now, 256 Chinese scientists have been elected as IEAS academicians, and five of them are from Shenzhen. (Xia Yuanjie)