Professor YU Zhiwen of Harbin Engineering University (HEU) has been awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Hyper-Intelligence 2024 Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) for his pioneering contributions to mobile crowdsensing and human-machine hybrid intelligence. This prestigious award recognizes scholars who have demonstrated exceptional performance in the research of super-intelligent systems and continue to make significant advancements in the field.
Professor YU has been a leading researcher in the areas of ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, human-machine systems, and swarm intelligence computing. His work has led to systematic and original contributions to the development of swarm intelligence-based perception computing. Notably, he introduced the concept of human-machine computing and has successfully applied it to fields such as code translation and smart healthcare.
With over 300 published papers, including more than 130 in IEEE/ACM and CCF A-class conferences, Professor YU’s work has garnered over 18,000 citations on Google Scholar. His achievements have been highlighted by prominent media outlets, including Science News in the United States and Xinhua News Agency in China. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of CCF TPCI and serves on the editorial boards of several internationally recognized journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS), IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM IMWUT.
Professor YU has led more than 20 major research projects, including the National Key R&D Project, the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National 973 Project. His work has earned numerous accolades, including the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Natural Science Award, the first prize of the Shaanxi Province Natural Science Award, and the first prize of the Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award.
The IEEE Technical Committee on Hyper-Intelligence is a leading body within IEEE that promotes research and development in global hyper-intelligence systems. Hyper-intelligence (HI) is a cutting-edge field focused on enhancing the connectivity, collaboration, and cognition among diverse intelligent entities—whether physical or digital, local or remote—in order to achieve superior intelligence. HI systems are already being applied in a wide range of areas, such as AI-driven chess engines, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, and are poised to transform the future of "information-physics-society-human" interactions.
