Mengchu Zhou

Mengchu Zhou (; born 31 October 1963) is a Chinese Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and at Macau University of Science and Technology. He is the Chairman of IKAS Industries of Shenzhen in China. He was the project leader of a national "973" plan in China. and a Board Member of OneSmart Education Group headquartered in China.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). Zhou is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/Wiley Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. In 2015, he received the Norbert Wiener Award for "fundamental contributions to the area of Petri net theory and applications to discrete event systems," from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society which also awarded him the Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award for Best Paper award in 2010. In 2000, Zhou received the Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. In 1994, he received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award (Leadership and Excellence in the Application and Development of integrated manufacturing). The number of his publications receiving 200 or more citations is 24 according to Google Scholar. He is one of the world's Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science and has a total of more than 34,000 citations with an h- index of 89.

Education

Zhou earned his Ph.D. in Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1990. He completed his M. S. in Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 1986 following the completion of his B. S. in Control Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, 1983. 12 books, 29 book chapters and over 300 conference- proceeding papers. and one of the overall leading researchers in automated manufacturing systems (Scopus). Web of Science ranked Zhou in 2012 as the number one most highly cited scholar in engineering worldwide and has listed him as a "highly cited scholar" in engineering since then. His recognition includes four Fellow designations - by IEEE for contributions to Petri nets and their applications; by AAAS for distinguished contributions to Petri nets, discrete event systems, and their applications to manufacturing, transportation, workflow, disassembly, web services, and software design; by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for seminal contributions to the theory of Petri nets and their application in manufacturing, transportation, and web services; and by Chinese Association of Automation for contributions to the field of automation.

Honors and awards

2019: Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, New Jersey Institute of Technology 2018: Outstanding Researcher Award, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology 2018: M. Ghahramani, M. C. Zhou (advisor) and C. T. Hon, “Spatio-temporal analysis of mobile phone data for interaction recognition,” in Proc. of 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Zhuhai, China, March 27–29, 2018 (Best Student Paper Award) 2017: Fellow, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) 2016: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics 2016: Best Paper Award, J. Q. Zhang, S. W. Zhu, D. Zang and M. C. Zhou “A Sliding Window Method for Online Tracking of Spatiotemporal Event Patterns” In the 9th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2016), September 28–30, 2016, Wuhan, China. 2016: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section Award (For outstanding contributions to the IEEE North Jersey Section and its SMC Chapter) 2016: Third Prize of the 12th Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award of Shaanxi Province, China, “ε-Constraint and fuzzy logic-based optimization of hazardous material transportation via lane reservation,” by Z. Zhou, F. Chu, A. Che, M. Zhou, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2013, 14(2): 847-857. 2015: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters 2015: Norbert Wiener Award for “fundamental contributions to the area of Petri net theory and applications to discrete event systems,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 2015: Best Conference Paper Award, J. Li, X. Meng and M. C. Zhou, “Job Scheduling and Collision Resolution of Multi-Bridge Processing Systems,” in Proc. 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, Taiwan, April 9–11, 2015 2014: Highly cited scholar in engineering by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters 2014: Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (For seminal contributions to the theory of Petri nets and their application in manufacturing, transportation, and web services). 2013: Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, May 2013. 2012: Top one of 2012 most highly cited scholars in engineering globally by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters 2012: Lifetime Contribution and Leadership Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology – USA, 2012 2012: Saul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology 2012: Best Student Paper Award, “Real-Time Control Policy for Single-Arm Cluster Tools with Residency Time Constraints and Activity Time Variation by Using Petri Net,” by Y. Qiao, N. Wu (Faculty Advisor) and M. C. Zhou (Faculty Co-Advisor) in Proc. 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 34–39, Beijing, China, April 11–14, 2012. 2011: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of Petri nets, discrete event systems, and their applications to manufacturing, transportation, workflow, disassembly, web services, and software design. 2011: QSI Best Application Paper Award Finalist, for the paper "Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools for Wafer Fabrication with Revisiting," by Y. Qiao, N. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 90–95, Trieste, Italy, August 24–27, 2011. 2010: Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. 2009: The third top recruiter of IEEE members in the Northeastern USA Region 2008: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, “Automatic Tracing of Blood Flow Velocity in Ultrasound Doppler Images” by Zhe Wang (Doctoral student), April 2008. 2007: Chang Jiang Scholars Program Award, PRC Ministry of Education. 2006: Marquis Who's Who in American Education, 2006-2007 Edition 2006: Faculty Advisor of Best Poster Presentation, "Ad Hoc Networking and its security applications" by Raul Garcia, XVII Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by NSF and Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 15–16, 2006. 2006: Outstanding Contribution Award, WOCC (Wireless and Optical Communication Conference) Inc., Oct. 2006. 2005: Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society 2005: Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis Who’s Who), 8th Edition 2005: Faculty Advisor of The Best Student Poster Award, The 13th Wireless and Optical Communication Conference, Newark, NJ, "Hybrid Networks: Cellular-Relay Architecture" by Zhigang Wang (doctoral student), April 22–23, 2005. 2005: Faculty Advisor of The Best Student Poster Award, 2005 CAST-GNY Annual Convention, New York City, "Optimal Tracking Interval for Predictive Tracking in Wireless Sensor Network " by Zhen Guo (doctoral student), June 18, 2005. 2005-2011: Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. 2005: “Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation” - Most Active Technical Committee Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. 2004: Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society 2004: Faculty advisor of the 1st Place of Doctoral Student Paper Competition, “Cluster Water and Biosignal Networks,” by Jingong Pan (Doctoral student), Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA, Newark, NJ, September 2004. 2003: Overseas Expert Panelist, The Chinese Academy of Sciences 2003: Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (for contributions to Petri nets and their applications) 2003: Faculty advisor of Best Student Technical Paper Award, “Product Sustainability Improvement Based on Performance of Product Components,” by M. Gao, and M. C. Zhou, Proceeding of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment & the IAER Electronics Recycling Summit, Boston, MA, May 2003. 2002: Faculty advisor of the 3rd Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, “3D Warping in Plastic Surgery Planning,” by Congzhe Zhang (Doctoral student), April 2002. 2002: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of Student Paper Presentation Contest sponsored by Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA/Greater New York Chapter, “Securing Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol,” by Congzhe Zhang (Doctoral student), August 2002. 2001: Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century, 1st Ed., International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK. 2001: Faculty advisor of the 1st Prize of IEEE North Jersey Section Graduate Student Contest, “A systematic approach for disassembly line design,” by Ying Tang (Doctoral student); and the 3rd Prize “Fuzzy Reasoning Petri Nets,” by Meimei Gao (Doctoral student). 2001: Asian American Achievement Award in the category of Professional and Academic Achievements, Asian American Heritage Council of New Jersey. 2001: Academic Achievement Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology – USA. 2000: Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis Who’s Who), 5th Edition 2000: The Kayamori Best Paper Award Finalist, 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. 2000: The Best Student Paper Award for the paper “A fuzzy logic-based lifecycle comparison of digital and film cameras” by B. Yang (Student), Y. Luo (Student), and M. C. Zhou (Faculty Advisor), 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco, CA, May 8–10, 2000. 2000: The Best Student Paper Award for the paper Design of virtual production lines in back-end semiconductor manufacturing systems” by Tang, Y. (Student), M. C. Zhou (Faculty Advisor), and R. Qiu, Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, pp. 1733–1738, Oct. 8-11, 2000. 2000 Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2000: Leadership Award, Chinese Association for Science & Technology - USA 1999: Franklin V. Taylor Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 1998: National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Nominee 1997: Honorary Research Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology 1996: Harlan J. Perlis Award for Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology 1994: National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award 1994: Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (LEAD=Leadership and Excellence in the Application and Development of integrated manufacturing) 1994: Outstanding Service Award by Chinese Association for Science & Technology - USA 1993 & 1994: National Science Foundation Young Investigator Nominee 1991: Engineering Foundation Research Initiation Award