At the 2026 ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference China (ACM TURC 2026) held in Zhejiang Province on 11 July, Professor YU Zhiwen from Harbin Engineering University (HEU) received the title of 2026 ACM China Distinguished Scholar, recognised for his pioneering contributions to crowd-sensing computing. He delivered a keynote lecture at the ACM China Distinguished Scholar Forum.

Turing Award laureate Robert Metcalfe presented the award to Professor YU

The lecture of Professor YU, “Crowd-Sensing Computing Systems”, introduced CrowdOS — an open-source crowd-sensing platform independently developed by his research team — and showcased cutting-edge advances in task scheduling, collaborative computing and system support for crowd-sensing applications, laying critical technical foundations for building open, efficient and intelligent crowd-sensing computing ecosystems.

Professor YU has conducted systematic, original research on crowd-sensing computing for years. His team pioneered the open-source CrowdOS platform worldwide and led the formulation of national standards for crowd-sensing technology. His research outputs have been widely deployed in public safety and digital government projects, enabling cross-domain data collaboration and smart city construction, and driving the advancement of the global crowd-sensing computing discipline.

Hosted annually by the ACM China Council, the ACM TURC gathers leading academic and industrial practitioners to exchange insights on artificial intelligence, computer science and frontier information technology.

The ACM China Distinguished Scholar Forum honours outstanding Chinese scholars with landmark contributions to information science and technology, selecting no more than ten awardees annually to deliver keynote addresses; it ranks among China’s most influential academic events in computer science.