Gong Ke (; born June 1955) is a Chinese electronic engineer and administrator who served as president of Tianjin University from 2006 to 2011 and president of

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from 2011 to 2018. He was an alternate member of the

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. He was a delegate to the

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and

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Biography

Gong was born into an official family in

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in June 1955, while his ancestral home in

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. His grandfather Gong Yinbing was a communist revolutionary and politician. His father Gong Yuzhi was a Chinese Communist Party theorist and politician. His mother Sun Xiaoli is a professor at

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. During the

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, he worked at the state owned No. 789 Factory between June 1970 and March 1978. He attended Beijing Institute of Technology (now Beijing Institute of Technology) where he received his bachelor's degree in electronic engineering in 1982. He joined the

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in November 1981. From February 1982 to February 1983, he attended language training at Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages (now

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). In 1983, he enrolled at Graz University of Technology, where he earned his doctor's degree in communication and radio wave in 1987. He returned to China in September 1987 and that same year carried out postdoctoral research at

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. After graduation, he stayed at the university and worked as assistant, professor, deputy director, director, and eventually moved up the ranks to become vice president in March 1999. In July 2006, he was promoted to become president of Tianjin University, a position at vice-ministerial level. He became president of

in January 2011, and served until January 2018. In August 2017, he was proposed as executive president of the newly founded China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy Research Institute, an academic institution studying artificial intelligence under the jurisdiction of Chinese Academy of Engineering. In November 2019, he was chosen as chairman of World Federation of Engineering Organization, becoming a Chinese chairman for the first time.

Honours and awards

*2001 Foreign academician of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gong, Ke 1955 births Living people People from Beijing Beijing Institute of Technology alumni Graz University of Technology alumni Tsinghua University alumni Academic staff of Tsinghua University Presidents of Nankai University Presidents of Tianjin University Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress