Wang Zicai


Wang Zicai was a Chinese automatic control and system simulation engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Wang was born into a family of farming background in Liaocheng County, Shandong, on 23 June 1932. His studies was interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War. In order to survive, his family discussed and decided to move north, and settled down in northeast China.
In 1951, he was accepted to Harbin Institute of Technology, and worked at the institute after graduation. In 1987, he led a group of young students to establish the Control and Simulation Center of Harbin Institute of Technology, in which he served as its director between January 1990 and January 2002.
On 13 December 2023, he died from an illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 91.

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