Bo Hu Li

Bo Hu Li is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering; a professor/doctor director and the president of the Institute of Automation Science and Electron Engineering in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the president of Chinese Association for System Simulation; a member of the board of directors in the Chinese Society of System Engineering; the vice director of Manufacturing Committee in the Chinese Society of Automation; the vice director of Industrial Engineering Committee in the Chinese Society of Electronics. He was the head of 5th (1997-2001) China High Tech & Research Plan 863/ Contemporary Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) Subject Expert Steering Committee; a member of Expert Steering Committee of Automation Area in the China High Tech & Research Plan 863; the president of Beijing Institute of Computer Application & Simulation Technology and the president of Beijing Simulation Center. He authored or co-authored 160 papers, 11 books and 4 translated books in the fields of modeling and simulation, concurrent engineering and contemporary integrated manufacturing system (CIMS). He has got 1 first class scientific awards and 1 second class scientific awards from China State, and 15 scientific awards from the Chinese Aerospace and Astronautics Ministry. He served for several international conferences as a member/chairman of international program committee/organization committee He is a member of Advisory Committee of the international journal “Simulation Theory & Practice” and was a member of the director committee of the Society of System Simulation International. His recent research areas are distributed simulation, virtual prototyping, concurrent engineering and contemporary integrated manufacturing system.