Professor Cao Hoi Quan was born in 1976 in a poor family in Heilongjiang (China). With the desire to reduce the burden on his parents, at the age of 15, instead of going to high school like his peers, he decided to choose Shaanxi No. 1 Industrial Technical College to continue his studies. He believed that by studying at high school, he could start working earlier to earn money to help his family.

Hoping for a stable salary after graduation, he studied very hard and always took every opportunity to improve himself. When he entered the major, he realized that to have a better future, he needed to transfer to university. Therefore, after graduating from high school in 1995, he decided to go to university.

Realizing the difficult circumstances of his family, although he continued to study, he did not want to add to the burden on his parents, so he took advantage of both studying and working. With his tireless efforts, he graduated from university in July 1998. At this time, he set a goal of taking the master's exam. This was a fierce exam, and Hoi Quan's family did not have the means, if he wanted to take the exam, it meant he would have to quit his job. Just when he was hesitating, his parents wholeheartedly supported him.

In February 2001, he received his master's degree from Shenyang University of Technology and his doctorate in Control Engineering from Harbin University of Technology in April 2005. During his four years of doctoral study, he published 10 articles in prestigious domestic and foreign journals. His doctoral thesis was later selected as one of the 100 best research projects in China.

With this achievement, he was not only retained as a lecturer at Harbin University of Technology. He was also specially promoted to professor at the age of 29 and became a world-leading researcher in the field of cybernetics. In September 2005, he was selected for the New Century Talent Cultivation Plan of the Chinese Ministry of Education, so he had the opportunity to go to Canada to complete his postdoctoral research program at the University of Alberta.

Returning home at the end of 2007, he returned to work at Harbin University of Technology. According to Sohu , his return has shortened the gap between China and other countries in the world in research and development of industrial control engineering equipment.

Currently, he is engaged in the research and development of automatic testing equipment for automobile gauges. His research has effectively improved the accuracy of meter manufacturing testing in China.

Professor Cao Hoi Quan - the world's leading researcher in the field of cybernetics. Photo: Baidu

As of January 2021, Professor Hoi Quan has been granted 80 national invention patents and 1 US invention patent. To date, he has published more than 100 articles in leading international journals with 20,000 citations according to SCI, of which 76 are in the top most cited articles according to ESI. From 2014 to 2020, he has continuously been in the top of the most cited scientists globally.

Currently, Professor Hoi Quan mainly researches networked control systems, intelligent control and sustainable control (Robust Control). As one of the world's leading scientists in the field of cybernetics, in 2023, he was honored to receive the IEEE Norbert Wiener Award. This is the most prestigious award of the Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) given to scientists who have made important contributions in the fields of systems science, systems engineering and cybernetics.

Previously, in 2013, Professor Hoi Quan also received the IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award from the Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for his outstanding achievements in the early stages of his career. In 2014, he was honored by Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics) as one of the world's most influential scientists.

In addition to teaching at Harbin University of Technology, Professor Hoi Quan currently holds many important positions here such as: Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Control Research and Director of the Institute of Science.

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