Ning Bin

Ning Bin (; 1 May 1959 – 14 June 2019) was a Chinese control systems engineer and professor who served as president of Beijing Jiaotong University from 2008 to 2019. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2014 "for contributions to train operation control systems" and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. He was a four-time recipient of the State Science and Technology Progress Award and was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize in 2016. He died in a traffic collision.

Life and career Ning was born on 1 May 1959 in Jishan County, Shanxi, China. After graduating from Northern Jiaotong University in 1982 with a bachelor of engineering degree in railway signalling, he was hired by the university as a faculty member. He later pursued graduate studies at the same university, earning his master's degree in 1987 and his doctor of engineering in 2005. On 5 May 2019, Ning was replaced by Wang Jiaqiong (王稼琼) as president. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. He was a recipient of the Zhan Tianyou Prize, the highest honour of China's railway industry. In 2016, he was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress. Ning was on his way to attend the World Transport Convention in Beijing when the accident occurred. He was 60.