Wu Youshou
Wu Youshou, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Born in Chaoan county, Guangdong Province, in 1925. After he graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering in Tsinghua University, he served as the chairman of the Department of Radio-Electronics (1981-84) and dean of the Graduate School (1984-90) at Tsinghua University, and has been the Deputy Vice President of the Science and Technology Committee of the State Education Commission since 1991. He is one of the founders of the Asian-Pacific Neural Network Assembly and became the President of the Assembly in 1995-96. He is the editor of Journals: Science in China, Chinese Journal of Electronics and Neuro Computing, and is the author or co-author of 6 books, including High Frequency Circuits and Chinese Character Recognition-Principle, methodology and Realization. He is a well-known teacher of Electrical Engineering and one of the pioneers in digital communication in China. To his credit, he proposed a new PCM encoder and performed an experimental digital telephone system in 1958 which was the first one implemented in China. During the 1960 and 1970s, he implemented several kinds of data transmission systems and micro-wave digital communication systems which earned the National Science and Technology Congress Award and won an honorable medal for his contributions to Science and Technology for National Defense. He also made distinguished achievements in the study of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks. One research project, a bilingual Chinese-English OCR system, was recognized as an outstanding achievement in electronics, and won the State Prize for Science and Technology Progress in 1994.