Qiheng Hu

Qiheng Hu finished graduation from Industrial Automation Specialty of Moscow Institute for Chemistry Mechanics in 1959 and obtained Doctor's Degree in 1963. Being back to China, she has been devoted to research works on automatic control for production processes and pattern recognition in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The project that she led, the Recognizer of Handwritten Numerals for Automatic Mail-Sorter, was awarded a prize from 1st China' National Congress of Science in 1977. She led the construction of 1st National Laboratory on Pattern Recognition in China, 1986. From 1980 to 1982 she has been invited to visit Case Western Reserve University of U.S. as research professor and has worked on Decision Rules Inference at EEAP Department. From 1983 to 1989 she has been the Director of Institute of Automation, CAS and from 1988 to 1996 Vice-President of CAS. She has been elected President of China Computer Federation, 1985-1994, and President of China Association for Automation, 1984-1993. She was elected Member of CAE in 1994. She has been elected the Vice-President of China Association for Science and Technology since 1996. She has chaired the Steering Committee for CNNIC since 1997. In 2001 she was elected President of the Internet Society of China. She is also a member of ICANN IDN Committee, and a member of the Working Group for Ethics in Research Training, which is set up by COMEST, UNESCO.

Qiheng Hu is one of the initiators in the research on Pattern Recognition in China, a well-known organizer for scientific works and also one of the initiators introducing the Internet into China. As a Vice President of CAS, she has paid great attention to encourage technology transfer and to promote the connection between science and technology with the economic development. She is enthusiastic in promoting international exchanges and collaborations for Chinese Scientific Community and has facilitated a number of successful collaborations of mutual benefits. Since 1994 she has devoted great efforts for the introduction and development of the Internet into China. She is a member of the State Advisory Committee on Information, and has been active in ICSU activities on the Ethics for Science during 1996 - 2002, while she has been a member of SCRES of ICSU.