Huang Ru


Huang Ru is a Chinese electronic engineer and scientist of Hui ethnicity who is currently a party member of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). She also served as president of Southeast University, was a former vice president of Peking University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Huang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, in November 1969, while her ancestral home in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian. She secondary studied at Wuxi No. 1 High School and Nanjing Zhonghua High School. In 1987, she was accepted to Southeast University, where she earned her master's degree in electronic engineering in 1994. Then she attended Peking University where she obtained her doctor's degree in 1997.
After university, Huang stayed at Peking University and worked successively as associate professor, full professor, and doctoral supervisor. She was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006. She was appointed as dean of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2014. She became dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence in April 2019, before becoming vice president in December of that same year.
On 7 January 2022, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and State Council of China appointed her as president of Southeast University, a position at vice-ministerial level. In October 2022, she was elected as an alternate of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
In January 2025, Huang was transferred to the National Development and Reform Commission as a party member, retaining her position at vice-ministerial level.

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