Dr. C. L. Philip Chen is a distinguished national expert, Dean and Chair Professor of School of Computer Science, South China University of Technology. Professor Chen is the vice chairman of the Chinese Association of Automation, the director of the Health Intelligence and Digital Parallel Human Engineering Center of the Ministry of Education, the director of the Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Cyberspace Information of Guangdong Province, the co-chairman of the Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, and the deputy director of the Pazhou Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IAPR Fellow, AcademyEuropaea, and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Arts), Chinese Society of Automation (CAA), Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Fellow. Professor Chen is a former director of IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics (2020-2021), and IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2014-2019) editor-in-chief of two top SCI journals, was the international general President of the society (2012-2013), and is also the editorial board of the domestic journals CAAI Trans on AI, Science in China, and Acta Automatica.
In 2018, Professor Chen received the IEEE Norbert Wiener Award for Cybernetics in System Science, the 2021 IEEE Joseph Wohl Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Wu Wenjun Award for Outstanding Contribution to Artificial Intelligence of the Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence. Professor Chen's research interests are mainly in Intelligent Systems and control, computational intelligence, Mixed Intelligence, and data science. He is a global Highly Cited Scientist in Clarivate Analytics for 5 consecutive years from 2018 to 2022 (2018 in Computer Science, 2018 to 2022 in Engineering and Computer Science).
