An Innovator of Management Science

Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific literature publisher, released a list of China’s most cited scholars in 2016, containing more than 1,700 Chinese scholars of international influence. Among them, Professor Wang Yingming, director of the Department of Management Science and Engineering of the School of Economics and Management of Fuzhou University, ranked seventh in the field of computer science for the third year.

Solid Academic Background

Born in Hai’an County, Jiangsu Province in 1964, Wang graduated from Jiangsu University in 1984, gained his master’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1987 and doctorate from Southeast University in 1991, conducted post-doctoral research at Tsinghua University from 1991 to 1993, and taught at Xiamen University until 2001. In the following years he worked as a senior researcher at Manchester University in the United Kingdom and City University of Hong Kong before he returned to Fuzhou University to teach in 2009.

Wang Yingming at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems in Naples, Italy.

Wang Yingming devoted himself to doing research in the U.K., and many scientific achievements were accomplished during this period. When asked whether he wanted to stay in the U.K., however, he replied: “There are a lot of things in Britain that I like, but it is not my country. Even though I work hard, there is no sense of belonging. While in Hong Kong I did not feel the same.”

In addition, there is an old saying in China that while one’s parents are alive, one should not travel to distant places. Being the only son in the family, along with the fact that his aged parents are not accustomed to living abroad for a long time, he decided to return to the mainland.

In March 2009 Wang started his teaching at Fuzhou University and began to set up his research teams.