Speaker：Mengchu Zhou
Time：30th December 2023，08:45-10:45
Venue：lecture theatre
Abstract:
This seminar is about how to perform high-quality research (especially Master thesis and doctoral dissertation related one) and write high-quality (easily-accepted) technical papers in English. Many students are sometimes wondering how to conduct their research and write quality technical papers; while faculty members may have questions about how to supervise their students. By learning from many other professionals including students, professors, engineers, managers and business leaders, this lecture shares with the audience the speaker’s important lessons and useful experience through many real-life examples. Most of them are based on what the speaker has gained as a doctoral student, faculty member, listener of many talks, and reader/reviewer/editor of numerous papers, theses, books and proposals for three decades. This presentation will also summarize many common English errors and presentation problems we faculty and students tend to make. It will indicate some critical points regarding how to become a responsible, contributing and happy professional and how to make the scientific and technological contributions to benefit human beings.
Biography:
MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation. He has over 1100 publications including 12 books, 750+ journal papers (600+ in IEEE transactions), 31 patents and 32 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. was VP for Conferences and Meetings of IEEE SMC Society. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters and now Clarivate Analytics. He has over 42, 200 GoogleScholar citations with H-index being 102. He is a recipient of Excellence in Research Prize and Medal from NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE SMC Society, and Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing UNIVERSITY-LEAD Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. He has been among most highly cited scholars since 2012 and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is Fellow of IEEE, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).