Huang Ru | |||||||
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黄如 | |||||||
President of Southeast University | |||||||
Assumed office 7 January 2022 | |||||||
Party Secretary | Zuo Wei | ||||||
Preceded by | Zhang Guangjun | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | November 1969 (age 54) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | ||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Alma mater | Southeast University Peking University | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Microelectronic devices | ||||||
Institutions | Southeast University (2022–present) Peking University (1997–2022) | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黄 如 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 黃 如 | ||||||
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Huang Ru ( simplified Chinese: 黄如; traditional Chinese: 黃如; pinyin: Huáng Rú; born November 1969) is a Chinese engineer and scientist of Hui ethnicity who is the current president of Southeast University, a former vice president of Peking University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [1]
Huang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, in November 1969, while her ancestral home in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian. [2] She secondary studied at Wuxi No. 1 High School and Nanjing Zhonghua High School (南京市中华中学). [3] In 1987, she was accepted to Southeast University, where she earned her master's degree in electronic engineering in 1994. [3] Then she attended Peking University where she obtained her doctor's degree in 1997. [3]
After university, Huang stayed at Peking University and worked successively as associate professor, full professor, and doctoral supervisor. [3] She was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006. She was appointed as dean of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2014. [3] She became dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence in April 2019, before becoming vice president in December of that same year. [3]
On 7 January 2022, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and State Council of China appointed her as president of Southeast University, a position at vice-ministerial level. [3] [4]