Prof Xiaoming Fu elected as IEEE Fellow

Prof Xiaoming Fu has been elected Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2022 for his remarkable contributions to “resource management in edge computing and networking”.  He is the first computer scientist at the University of Göttingen named as an IEEE Fellow.

Xiaoming Fu received the PhD degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2000. He was then a research staff at Technical University of Berlin until joining the University of Göttingen in 2002, where he has been a professor in computer science and heading the computer networks group since 2007. He has spent research visits at the Universities of Cambridge, Columbia, UCLA, Uppsala, Sorbonne, Tsinghua, and Victoria (Australia). He has been named an IET Fellow (2017) and member of Academia Europaea (2018). His research interests include Internet-based systems, applications, and social computing. He is currently an editorial board member of IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Social Computing.

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The IEEE is the world's largest professional organisation dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, with more than 430,000 members in over 160 countries.   IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. Only less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.