Li Han
Staff writer of the Tsinghua News Center
Professor Chen Guanrong was name a guest professor of Tsinghua University on June 8. Tsinghua Vice President Hu Heping attended and addressed the conferral ceremony. Professor Wen Zhiying, dean of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, presented the honorary appointment book to Professor Chen Guanrong.
Following the ceremony, Professor Chen Guanrong delivered a speech to students.
Chen Guanrong received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University, China, in Fall 1981 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University, USA, in Spring 1987. Dr. Chen received the 1993 Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of Houston, the 1998 Harden-Simons Annual Prize for Outstanding Journal Paper from the American Society of Engineering Education, the 2001 IEEE M. Barry Carlton Best Annual Paper Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, the 2002 Best Paper Award from the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the 2005 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Annual Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
