Young Researcher Award

Associate Professor GE Shuzhi, Sam

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Young Researcher Award is given to Assoc Prof Ge for his significant contributions to the fundamental theoretical development of stable neural network control and its practical implementation.

Assoc Prof Ge thrives on the construction and deconstruction of knowledge. A self-professed perfectionist, Assoc Prof Ge's dogged persistence is his strongest suit. The resultant focus characterises him as a researcher. Spurred by childhood readings about inventors like Albert Einstein and the Wright Brothers, he has cultivated a lifelong fascination with innovations and the discovery of new knowledge. Keeping abreast of the cutting-edge, coupled with an eagerness to push the frontiers of knowledge, has become his modus operandi.

His award-winning research in the field of stable adaptive neural control is a response to the absence of a firm mathematical basis in stability, robustness and performance analysis of neural network adaptive control systems. His contributions include the development of the Ge-Lee matrix and its operator as a flexible tool in the analysis of structured networks, unified control for robots by exploiting their physical properties, pioneer control system design for nonlinear systems, and the practical implementation of these findings.

Characteristic of his pursuit of excellence, Assoc Prof Ge sees the honour given by the University not only as a tribute, but also as an encouragement to him to surge forward - to raise neural networks to perform at the higher level of artificial intelligence. His heart and mind are already into this dream of building a robot that can solve real-life problems as intelligently as human beings.