图片：劉國瑞教授，美国马里兰大学

10月12日，国际电气与电子工程师协会（IEEE）发布了2021年候选主席的选举结果。

不负重望，美国马里兰大学教授、信号处理领域专家、IEEE院士刘国瑞（KJ Ray Liu）当选。

刘博士（IEEE Fellow）是美国马里兰大学的杰出教授。他的团队从事的研究广泛涉及信息和通信技术领域（请参见http://sig.umd.edu/）。作为Origin Wireless公司的创始人，刘博士的无线AI发明赢得了2017年CEATEC大奖。

他发明的一款名为Linksys Aware的产品已在全球超过150多个国家/地区得到了应用，且获得了CES 2020创新奖。刘博士曾担任IEEE负责技术活动的副主席、IEEE董事会第九分部主任以及IEEE信号处理学会主席。

除此之外，他还在IEEE信号处理学会内担任过负责出版的副主席、理事会成员和《IEEE Signal Processing Magazine》的主编。

刘博士是在Web of Science上的高被引科学家，他同时是IEEE、美国科学促进会和美国国家发明家学会的会士。

他曾获得2016年IEEE Leon Kirchmayer研究生教学和指导奖、2014年IEEE信号处理学会奖、2009年IEEE信号处理学会技术成就奖以及十多个最佳论文奖。

刘博士已经培养了40多名来自中国的博士和博士后，他们中的许多人已经在世界各地的大学任教，包括清华大学、中国科学技术大学、西安交通大学和北京邮电大学。

Dr. Liu is Distinguished University Professor of University of Maryland, College Park, where his group conducts research encompassing broad areas of information and communications technology（see http://sig.umd.edu/）. As the founder of Origin Wireless, Ray’s invention of wireless AI won the 2017 CEATEC Grand Prix award, and a product is available as Linksys Aware, over 150 countries worldwide, which won the CES 2020 Innovation Award. Ray has served as the IEEE Vice President, Technical Activities, overseeing about 50+ societies/councils/communities, Division IX Director of IEEE Board of Directors, and the President of IEEE Signal Processing Society, in which he has also served as Vice President - Publications and a member on the Board of Governor. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Ray is recognized by Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher, and He is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, and U.S. National Academy of Inventors. He is a recipient of the 2016 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Award on graduate teaching and mentoring, IEEE Signal Processing 2014 Society Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society 2009 Technical Achievement Award, and over a dozen of best paper awards. Ray has trained over 40 doctoral and post-doctoral students from China, many of them are having distinguished career worldwide, including serving as faculty members in Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication.