S. Joe Qin

Professor
S.Joe Qin
4th President of Lingnan University
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2023
Preceded byLeonard Cheng Kwok-Hon
Personal details
BornAugust 1963 (age 62)
Rizhao, Shandong province, China
NationalityUS
Alma materTsinghua University
University of Maryland

Professor S. Joe Qin (Chinese: 秦泗釗) currently holds the position of Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science[1] and serves as the President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong.[2]

Career

From 1992 to 1995, Professor Qin served as a Principal Engineer at Emerson Process Management. He subsequently transitioned to academia, holding various positions at the University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2007,[3] including assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. From 2003 to 2007, he held the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professorship in Chemical Engineering.

From 2007 to 2019, he was the Fluor Professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California[4] (USC), during which he took a three-year leave to serve as Vice President and Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.[5]  From January 2020 to June 2023, he served in Hong Kong as the inaugural Dean of the School of Data Science and the Chair Professor of Data Science at the City University of Hong Kong.[6]

Education

Professor Qin possesses a diverse educational background encompassing multiple disciplines. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively.[7] He then continued studying for his PhD in Automation at Tsinghua University until 1989.[8] In 1989, Qin moved to the United States to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, which he completed in June 1992.[9]

Honors and awards

Honors

Awards

  • Halliburton/Brown & Root Young Faculty Excellence Award, 1999[16]
  • DuPont Young Professor Award, 1999-2002[16]
  • U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2000[17]
  • NSF China Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2003-2006)[16]
  • IFAC Best Paper Prize for a model predictive control paper published in Control Engineering Practice (2005)[18]
  • MOE China Changjiang Professorship (2006-2009)[7]
  • Northrop Grumman Best Teaching Award, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2011[19]
  • World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford, 2019-present[20]
  • CAST Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2022[21]
  • IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award, 2022[22]
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2025[23]
  • Liaoning Provincial 2nd Class Natural Science Award, 2025[24]
  • Gold Award, Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities, 2025[25]
  • Silver Award Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, 2025[26]

Research

Professor Qin's research interests encompass data science and analytics, machine learning, process monitoring, model predictive control, system identification, smart manufacturing, smart cities, energy efficiency, and predictive health maintenance.

With a prolific publication record of over 470 international journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and presentations, Professor Qin is also the inventor of 15 U.S. patents. He has also delivered over 130 seminars and conducted 26 short courses or workshops for industries and technical conferences. His h-indices for Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar are 71, 77, and 90, respectively, and he has garnered over 43,000 citations on Google Scholar (as of November 2025).

Editorial/Professional activities

  • Editor for Control Engineering Practice (IFAC), 1999-2005
  • Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Chemometrics (1999-2020)
  • Senior Editor for the Journal of Process Control, 2015-2018 
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Process Control (2005-2015; 2019-present)
  • Associate Editor for several other international journals, including IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2011-2013)
  • National Organization Chair of the 10th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes ADCHEM 2018 in Shenyang[27]
  • National Organization Chair of the 13th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes ADCHEM 2027 in Hong Kong

References

  1. ^ "嶺南大學宣布成立數據科學學院 培養全面發展的人工智能及數據科學家". www.capital-hk.com. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  2. ^ "Lingnan University appoints Professor S Joe Qin as next President". SCMP Hong Kong News. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  3. ^ "显示文章". 2013-11-02. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  4. ^ "USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Joe Qin". 2013-05-15. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  5. ^ 林穎嫺 (2022-10-10). "城大教授秦泗釗獲薦任嶺大校長 屬海歸派曾任中大深圳副校". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  6. ^ "World-class data scientist recognised for putting theory to practice". www.cityu.edu.hk. 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
  7. ^ a b "秦泗钊校友当选IEEE会士". Tsinghua Alumni Association (in Simplified Chinese). 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  8. ^ "USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Joe Qin". 2013-05-15. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
  9. ^ "GDAA 廣東省自動化學會". Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  10. ^ "S. Joe Qin". IEEE Xplore. 4 November 2018.
  11. ^ "S. Joe Qin". www.aiche.org. 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  12. ^ "Professor Sizhao Qin Elected Fellow of AIChE". The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shen Zhen. August 9, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
  13. ^ "城大頂尖數據科學家獲選為美國國家發明家科學院院士". 香港城市大學 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  14. ^ "Lingnan data science expert President Joe Qin and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence Prof Sam Kwong elected Fellows of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences - Press Release | Lingnan University". www.ln.edu.hk. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  15. ^ "嶺大國際知名數據科學專家秦泗釗校長 膺選歐洲文理科學院院士 - 新聞稿 | 嶺南大學". www.ln.edu.hk (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2024-09-11.
  16. ^ a b c "秦泗钊校友当选IEEE会士-清华校友总会". www.tsinghua.org.cn. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  17. ^ "National Science Foundation Awards". Cockrell School of Engineering - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  18. ^ "Journal Awards — IFAC · International Federation of Automatic Control". www.ifac-control.org. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  19. ^ "VSOE Teaching Award". USC Viterbi | School of Engineering. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  20. ^ "World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford | Lingnan University". www.ln.edu.hk. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  21. ^ "Computing in Chemical Engineering Award". www.aiche.org. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  22. ^ "2022 IEEE CSS Awards [Awards]". IEEE Control Systems Magazine. 43 (2): 100–102.
  23. ^ "Distinguished Lecturers". IEEE SMC. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  24. ^ "Developing AI monitoring systems to upgrade industrial intelligence ― Lingnan President S. Joe Qin and the research team take second prize at Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Awards - Press Release | Lingnan University". www.ln.edu.hk. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  25. ^ "Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities presents Gold Award to Lingnan's AI Model predicting cooling demand in commercial buildings - Press Release | Lingnan University". www.ln.edu.hk. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  26. ^ "Lingnan University shines at International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, winning 5 prizes ― Record-breaking number of exhibitors and awards-winning achievements - Press Release | Lingnan University". www.ln.edu.hk. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  27. ^ "ADCHEM 2018, 10th IFAC International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes July 25-27, 2018. Shenyang, Liaoning, China". folk.ntnu.no. Retrieved 2024-09-11.

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