Wen Gao, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He is the director of Peng Cheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China) and the Boya Chair Professor at Peking University.
2018-present
Founding Director, Peng Cheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China)
2016-19, 22-present
Director, Faculty of Information and Engineering Sciences, Peking University
2019-2021
Dean, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University
2006-present
Professor/Chair Professor, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science/School of Computer Science, Peking University
2016-2020
President, China Computer Federation
2013-2018
Vice President, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2000-2004
Professor & Executive Vice President, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000-2003
Professor & Vice President, University of Science Technology China
1998-1999
Managing Director, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996-2006
Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1994
Visiting Scientist, AI Lab, MIT
1993-1996
Head of Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology
1993
Visiting Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
1996-2001
Member and Chairman, Steering Committee for Intelligent Computing System, 863 Hi-Tech Program
1991-2003
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology
2022, The Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
2021, Outstanding Contribution Award of Guangdong Province
2020, National Technology Innovation Awards (the only one in first class, for key technology of ultra-high-definition (UHD) polymorphic primitive encoding and decoding, by China State Council)
2018, Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in the year by Chinese Universities (for AVS2, the national standard of video coding, supports CCTV UHD TV broadcasting, by Ministry of Education)
2015, National Natural Science Award (second class, for research on the theory and methods of the local modeling and non-collinear feature extraction of vision mode, by China State Council)
2013, elected as ACM Fellow, for contributions to video technology, and for leadership to advance computing in China
2012, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for National standard AVS and industrial application of digital video codec technology, by China State Council)
2011, elected as Member of CAE, Chinese Academy of Engineering.
2010, CCF Wang Xuan Award, for outstanding contributions in audio video coding theories, standards and applications
2010, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for multimedia technology and intelligent service system of million books digital library, by China State Council)
2009, elected as IEEE Fellow, for contributions to object-based video representation and scalable video coding technologies and standards
2009, Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in the year by Chinese Universities (for Research on digital video coding technology and formulation of the national standard, by Ministry of Education)
2007, First prize of China Standard Innovation Contribution Award, by Standardization Administration of China
2006, National Technology Innovation Awards (second class, for advanced video coding technology, by China State Council)
2005, China’s Top Ten Educational Talents
2005, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for Face recognition system, by China State Council)
2003, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for Chinese sign language recognition and synthesis system, by China State Council)
2002, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for compunicator – combination of mobile computing and communication, by China State Council)
2001, First Prize for Outstanding Individual in the National 863 Plan
2000, National Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class, for digital video broadcasting system, by China State Council)
1996, Titled of Hundred Talents, Chinese Academy of Sciences
