Tan Tieniu

Tan Tieniu FREng is the president of the World Data Organization and a professor at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Concurrently, he was deputy chief of the Hong Kong Liaison Office. He was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Nanjing University from September 2022 to March 2026.

Early life Tan was born in Hunan Province, China, in October 1963. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1983. He was educated in Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1984. In 1989, he received his PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Imperial College London.

Career Tan joined University of Reading, UK, as a research fellow after his Ph.D. In 1998, he returned to China. He joined Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor at the Institute of Automation. He was a vice president at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013–2014). His research focuses on biometrics and pattern recognition. He was former President of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is also the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Automation and Computing. He is an adjunct professor at University of Science and Technology of China. From 2012 to 2016, he was given a grant to study "social perception data processing for public security".

Throughout his career, he was also a member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Youth Federation, a Vice Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation of Central Party and State Organs. Chairman of the CAS Youth Federation. Vice President of the China Association for Young Scientists and Technologists, and the Inaugural President of the All-China Youth Federation’s Association of Returned Overseas Students. and a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2001, he was given the honorary title National Outstanding Communist Party Member by the CCP Central Committee.