The 2020 International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellows list has been announced! Professor Jia Weijia of the University of Macau is on the list in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of optimizing routing protocols and network matching.

Jia Weijia is the eighth professor from UM to be elected as an IEEE fellow. The full name of IEEE is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). It is an international society for electronic technology and information science engineers. It has more than 420,000 members in 160 countries. IEEE Fellows are the highest-level members of the society. It is the highest honor awarded to members by IEEE. It is recognized as an authoritative honor and important professional achievement in the academic and technological circles. Every year, candidates for membership are strictly selected by experts of the association. The number of candidates elected shall not exceed one thousandth of the total number of members of the association that year. .

Jia Weijia is currently the deputy director (research) of the State Key Laboratory of Smart City Internet of Things and a chair professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM. Research directions include cyberspace entity object sensing, human-machine-object integration knowledge graph construction and big data processing, next-generation wireless communication protocols, and the Internet of Things. He has achieved many leading research results at home and abroad in the fields of multicast communication and multimedia communication. In particular, he has conducted pioneering research in the field of Anycast (anycast) routing protocol research and network matching, and has achieved many international leading achievements. research results. He currently holds two U.S. and five mainland China patents, has published more than 500 papers in top international magazines and academic conferences, and has authored or co-authored 14 books. In 2017, he won the first prize of the Natural Science Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Science and Technology) from the Ministry of Education for his research on “Theories and Methods of Resource Scheduling and Management of Distributed Systems”.