Chen Guoliangc

Biography

Chen Guoliang, born in 1938, a native of Yingshang County, Anhui Province, currently works as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Prof. Chen also serves as Dean of the School of Software Engineering of USTC, and Director of the National High Performance Computing Center at Hefei. Chen graduated from the Department of Radio and Electronics, Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1961. He joined the faculty of USTC in 1973. From 1981 to 1983, Prof. Chen undertook research and study at the Purdue University in the United States as a visiting scholar. In 2003, Prof. Chen was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over the past two decades, Prof. Chen Guoliang has carried out systematic investigations into the theory, design and application of parallel algorithms and put forward a series of new ideas and new methods in this regard. As a result of his pioneering efforts, the integrated research system of “parallel algorithms - parallel computer - parallel programming” has been established. Prof. Chen has also made significant achievements and contributions in the field of non-numerical parallel algorithms, high performance computing and its application. In the early 1980s, Prof. Chen was the first in China to carry out research on non-numerical parallel algorithms. Prof. Chen’s research achievements were in the vanguard position among his peers during the same period. His representative achievements lie in research on packet switching network, routing algorithms for Benes network, VLSI planar embedding algorithm and the network maximum flow algorithm. He had made improvements to the research of some Turing Awardees, including Yao’s bounds on selection networks and parallel algorithms for string matching, and revised Karp’s random string matching algorithm into determinate string matching algorithm. He was the first in the world to have carried our analyses of the average performance of uniform distribution on (0, d] and packing algorithm as well as of the algorithm for two-dimensional packing. Prof. Chen’s research results have been spoken highly of by his peers both at home and abroad.

Research Interest

Optimization of neural network and genetic algorithm, high performance computing and its application