Han Zhenxiang

Han Zhenxiang (; 24 May 1930 – 4 May 2024) was a Chinese electrical engineer who served as president of Zhejiang University and of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography Han was born in 1930 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and his ancestral home was in Xiaoshan County. He attended Hangzhou High School. That same year, he was selected as a delegate to the 7th National People's Congress.

Han was the 3rd and 4th president of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). He was an honorary member of the society.

On 4 May 2024, Han died in Hangzhou, at the age of 93.

Work Han was a key pioneer of the large-scaled electrical networks in China. Han mainly worked on the fault diagnosis of power systems, the control and stability of electrical power systems, and the optimal design of electrical power networks.

Han was also one of the first in China to combine computer artificial intelligence with electrical power networks, and developed several computer softwares which were widely used in China for controlling and estimating electrical power systems.

Honours and awards 1997 State Natural Science Award (Third Class) for the theoretical and methodological research on modeling, analysis, and control of DC transmission and AC-DC power systems. 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)