Zhou Ji

Unofficial source (from alumnus Grace YANG) suggested that Professor ZHOU Ji became the new president of HUST. The profile of HUST can be found below, which is copied from this page.

Now it is official, as can be seen from this page from HUST campus web site (mirror).

                                  JI ZHOU
                                      
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     JI ZHOU Ph.D
   
     Dean and Professor
   
     1. PERSONAL:
          
     Date of Birth: August 1946
          
     Nationality: Chinese
          
   Correspondence:
          School of Mechanical Science and Engineering Huazhong
          University of Science and Technology (HUST) Wuhan, 430074,
          China,
          
     Tex: +86 27 7801881
          
     Fax: +86 27 7801881
          
   2. ACADEMIC
          
     1965-1970 Dept. of Instrument and Mech. Eng., Tsinghua University,
          Beijing, with degree of Bachel or of Engineering
          
     1980-1984 Dept. of Mech. Eng., State University of NewYork at
          Buffalo, with M.S. and Ph.D degree
          
   3. CAREER
          
     1970-1978 Engineer and Lecturer, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Xinjiang
          Institute of Tech nology, Xinjiang
          
     1984-Present Associte professor (1984-1989) Professor, Director of
          CIMS Center and CAD center (1989-present) Dean of school of
          Mechanical Science and Engineering (1993-present) HUST. Wuhan
          
   Research interest:
          Puruing research in
          
     (1) CIMS-Computer Integrated Manufacturing,
          
     (2) CAD-Computer Aided Design,
          
     (3) Optimatization,
          
     (4) Intelligent Design and Manufacturing,
          
     (5) CNC Machining.
          
   4. PUBLICATIONS
          Books Total 8 books have been publicated, among which 2 was
          printed from High Education Press, 3 from Mechanical Industry
          Press, 2 from HUST Press and 1 from Science Press. Charpters in
          Books Total 5 charpters have been written in books publicated
          from Prentice Hall Inc., Chapman & Hall Press etc.
          Papers
          
     More than 200 papers have been pressed in academic journals and
          international conference proceedings such as ASME "J. of
          Mechanism Transmitions and Auto. in Design", "Mechanical
          Engineerng", "CADDM", "Computer Science", "Proceeding of 13th
          Design Automation Conference", "Pro. of 4th Int. Conf. on CAPE"
          etc.