Prof. ZHANG Fumin Elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Prof. Fumin Zhang, Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This prestigious honor recognizes his exceptional engineering achievements and significant contributions to the engineering profession and ASME.

Prof. Zhang’s research interests include marine robotics and autonomous systems, mobile sensor and actuator networks, bio-inspired distributed active perception, and human-autonomy interaction and integration.

Prof. Zhang joined HKUST in January 2023. Prior to that, he held Dean’s Professorship in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and served as Director of the Decision and Control Lab at the university, where he joined in 2007. He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland (College Park) in 2004, and held a postdoctoral position in Princeton University from 2004 to 2007.

He is an IEEE Fellow and received the NSF CAREER Award in 2009 and the ONR Young Investigator Program Award in 2010, among many honors and awards at the international, national and institutional levels.

Founded in 1880, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines. It has more than 72,000 members from over 130 countries and regions worldwide.