Biography
Professor Feng Qian is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, an expert in Process Control and Process Systems Engineering. He is currently the Vice President of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes under the Ministry of Education and Director of the Process Systems Engineering Research Center under Ministry of Education. He is also a member of the consultation group of Control Science and Engineering Academic Degree Accreditation Committee under the State Council, and the Vice President of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association. He is also the member of the 11th, 12th and 13th National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Since 1980s, he focused on research and development of new theories and key technologies to implement intelligent control and real-time optimization for process manufacturing systems so as to achieve efficient use of chemical process resources and energy. His research team developed novel intelligent control and optimized operation algorithms and software for large scale ethylene plants. These research outcomes have been widely used in the ethylene industry in China and have achieved remarkable economic benefits. His research team also achieved breakthrough in key technologies of the whole terephthalic acid process optimal operation and achieved substantial energy saving and consumption reduction in industry. They also developed the optimal control technology for gasoline pipeline blending, which achieved long cycle and efficient operation of the real-time optimization system for blending process. The research outcomes have been successfully used in dozens of large scale petrochemical plants, and remarkable economic and social benefits have been achieved. His research team has won 4 National Second-Prizes for Progress in Science and Technology and over 20 provincial and ministerial-level Science and Technology awards. His team has 40 national invention patents authorized and 70 pieces of national computer software copyright successfully registered. They also won 2 Chinese patent outstanding awards and 2 First-Prizes of Shanghai Invention Patent Award. He has published 3 monographs and over 300 papers indexed by SCI and EI. The research from his team was selected as the Top 10 cases of the university-industry cooperation. He was among the first batch of national candidates for the New Century Talents Project, the principal scientist of the national "973" Program, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He was the Changjiang Scholar Professor of Ministry of Education. He is also the winner of Science and Technology Innovation Award of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, the Award of National Invention and Entrepreneurship, Elite of Shanghai Science and Technology and other honors.
