CCF Announces 2020 Award Winners for Overseas Outstanding Contribution

2020-09-01


Established in 2005, CCF Award for Overseas Outstanding Contribution is presented to individuals or organization who have made outstanding contributions to promote China computing industry and development in scientific research, academic communications, talent cultivation and international cooperation.


CCF Awarding Committee decided to name Professor Fan Wenfei, Director,School of information, University of Edinburgh, and Yang Yuanyuan, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of electrical and computer engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, the recipients of 2020 CCF Award for Overseas Outstanding Contribution, to honor their great achievements in computing and contribution to China computing development.

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Professor Fan Wenfei


Reason for Awarded: 

Professor Fan Wenfei is an international well-known database expert, and ACM fellow, membership of Academia Europaea. Professor Fan has made fundamental contributions to both foundations and practice of big data computing, data quality and semi-structured data management. He initiated a new theory and approach of big data computing, which greatly improved the computing efficiency; and reshaped the field of data quality, effectively solved the data usability; and opened up the constraints for semi-structured data, which had a profound impact on Web data management.

Over the years, he has actively promoted substantial cooperation between China and the UK, involved in China's scientific research and education to advance computing education in China, and promote China-based big data computing and quality research to the world. He also took an active part in CCF activities, including the chairman of CCF Big Data Conference, and invited speaker to CCF flagship events, China National Computer Congress (CNCC)Future Computer Education Summit (FCES)Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum (YOCSEF) and Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL).


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Professor Yang Yuanyuan


Reason for Awarded: 

Professor Yang Yuanyuan is an internationally renowned expert in networking and IEEE Fellow. She is recognized for her significant contributions in the areas of interconnection networks, wireless networks, optical DC networks, edge computing and cloud computing.

Her proposed non-blocking multicast switching network solves the problem of how to build a very large scale multicast switching system with low system complexity, and the result remains the best in this field. For the first time in the world, she proposed to take the energy consumption curve change as the decision-making factor of routing protocol in wireless ad hoc networks (especially in wireless sensor networks). At the same time, she has carried out pioneering and long-term research on data collection and wireless charging in sensor networks, improving the path planning of mobile collectors in sensor networks.

Professor Yang Yuanyuan has also made outstanding contributions to talent cultivation in China. Under her guidance and training, Chongqing University research team have been significantly enhanced in the research strength and faculty, even the research team has formed a reasonable talent echelon composed of national level, provincial and ministerial level talents and young backbone force of research. She cooperated with domestic scholars and published many papers at top international conferences, and greatly promoted domestic outstanding talents to the world.