# S. Joe Qin

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

## Career

From 1992 to 1995, Professor Qin contributed significantly as a Principal Engineer at Emerson Process Management. He subsequently advanced his career in academia, holding positions as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, and was honored to have the distinguished Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professorship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2007.
Following this, he assumed the role of Fluor Professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), where he dedicated his expertise from 2007 to 2019. Notably, during his tenure at USC, Professor Qin undertook a crucial three-year leave to serve as Vice President and Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Most recently, from January 2020 to June 2023, he contributed significantly to the academic landscape 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.

## 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. He further studied and graduated with Ph.D. in Automation at same university, in 1989. In 1989, Qin moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering at the University of Maryland, and completed his education in June 1992.

## Awards and Honours
### Academicians and Fellowships

Professor Qin has been honored with the prestigious titles of academician and fellow by a number of highly esteemed societies and research institutes, including:
* the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
* Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
* Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES)
* Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
* Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
* Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors

### Honours and Academic Awards

In 2022, Professor Qin was honored with the CAST Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award. Notably, he is the first and only Greater China recipient to receive both accolades. Earlier in his career, he received several distinguished awards, including:
* the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award
* the 2011 Northrop Grumman Best Teaching award at Viterbi School of Engineering
* the DuPont Young Professor Award
* the Halliburton/Brown & Root Young Faculty Excellence Award
* the NSF-China Outstanding Young Investigator Award
* the MOE-China Changjiang Professorship
* the IFAC Best Paper Prize for a model predictive control paper published in Control Engineering Practice

## Contributions

Professor Qin has made significant contributions to academia and research. He has an extensive publication record, having authored over 470 international journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers, and has also given numerous plenaries and invited presentations at various conferences.
His research interests encompass diverse areas such as data science and analytics, machine learning, process monitoring, model predictive control, system identification, smart manufacturing, smart cities, and predictive health maintenance.

### Achievements

* holds 12 U.S. patents
* has mentored over 40 Ph.D. students, with 32 successfully obtaining their Ph.D. degrees
* has delivered over 120 invited seminars and 26 short courses or workshops, primarily aimed at industry professionals and technical conference attendees
* scholarly impact is evident from his h-index scores on different platforms: 69 on Web of Science, 76 on SCOPUS, and 88 on Google Scholar, with over 40,000 citations on Google Scholar alone.

### Other Critical Roles

* the Senior Editor for the Journal of Process Control
* the Editor of Control Engineering Practice
* the member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Chemometrics
* the Associate Editor for several distinguished international journals
* the National Organization Chair of the 10th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes ADCHEM 2018