The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced the results of the 2025 academician election on Nov 21. The Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) added three new members to the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Professor Yuan Shijian from HIT's School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor Huang Yudong from HIT's School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering were elected as new CAE academicians, while Chair Professor Huang Jie from the School of Astronautics was elected as a CAE foreign academician.
Yuan Shijian was born in January 1963 and is a member of the Communist Party of China. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and a national-level leading talent, currently serving as the director of the National Key Laboratory for Precision Hot Processing of Metals. Yuan has long been engaged in research on fluid pressure forming of metal thin-walled structures, proposing theories and methods for controlling the stress field in fluid forming. His work has led to several theoretical breakthroughs, technological innovations, and equipment development, forming a unique Chinese fluid pressure forming technology system. His achievements have been applied in the research and production of key aerospace equipment and widely used in the mass production of key components for domestic independent brands. As the primary contributor, he has won two second-place National Technological Invention Awards, one second-place National Science and Technology Progress Award, and one first-place China Patent Award. He has also received the title of National Advanced Worker, the National Innovation Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Award, the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, and the Outstanding Engineer Award. Yuan holds 86 authorized invention patents, including 18 international patents, and has published four monographs and over 190 academic papers, with 152 included in SCI.
Huang Yudong was born in November 1965 and is a member of the Communist Party of China. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and a national-level leading talent, serving as a member of the appraisal group for Chemical Engineering and Technology of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and a committee member of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division of the Eighth Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Committee. Huang has long been engaged in the development of fundamental science and key technologies, as well as engineering research in polymer reaction engineering and interfacial chemical engineering, achieving several internationally influential engineering science results. As the primary contributor, he has won two second-place National Technological Invention Awards and five first-place prizes from provincial, ministerial, and primary societies. He has received the National Innovation Award, was named an Advanced Individual of the Chang'e 5 Lunar Exploration Mission, and has been honored with the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award and as a fellow of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China. He has published 559 SCI papers, with 18,472 citations, and has authored two monographs and co-authored two others. He has been recognized as an Elsevier's Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemical engineering in China for four consecutive years and holds 288 authorized national invention patents.
Huang Jie was born in May 1955. He is a chair professor at HIT and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has long been engaged in research in control theory and applications, robotics and automation, neural networks and game theory, as well as the guidance and control of flight vehicles. His research has significantly advanced the development of cooperative robust output regulation for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems and distributed game theory and applications. He currently or has previously served as an associate editor for over ten international authoritative journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and as a general chair or a program committee chair for several important international conferences. He is a board member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, an honorary board member of the 10th council of the Chinese Association of Automation, vice-chair of the Guan Zhao-Zhi Award's evaluation committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, a scientific advisor to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and an honorary advisor to the Hong Kong Science Museum. Huang has received one second-place National Natural Science Award and has been elected an IEEE fellow, IFAC fellow, fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (first batch), and fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He has published over 450 academic papers and authored four monographs, including one that is solo-authored.
Editor: Yang Wenyu