On June 27, 2019, Academia Europaea announced the results of the 2019 academician election. Hu, Zhenjiang, the Head of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Deputy Dean of School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, is elected as a foreign academician.

The Academia Europaea, founded in 1988 and headquartered in London, England, is co-sponsored by the Royal Society (UK) and other national scientific organizations representing the highest academic level. It is one of the most influential scientific organizations in the world covering physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law.

Current membership stands at around 3,800 leading experts and eminent scholars from the mentioned fields, including seventy-two Nobel Laureates. As of July 2019, there are 30 Chinese scholars elected as members of Academia Europaea.

Professor Hu, Zhenjiang, who engaged in research of programming languages and software engineering, has outstanding contributions in programming languages, functional programming, bidirectional transformation, and parallel programming in particular. His work is characterized by developing methodologies to support rigorous development of robust software systems. He was awarded the basic research achievement awards from Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, the most prestigious award to software researchers in Japan. He is famous for his contribution to the establishment of the well-known NII Shonan Meetings. He is a Fellow of Japan Federation of Engineering Society, ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Link:https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Hu_Zhenjiang