Liu Sifeng (; born 15 July 1955) is a Chinese systems engineer. He is the director of the Institute for Grey Systems Studies at
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA, ), colloquially known as Nanhang (南航), is a public research university in Nanjing, China. One of the Seven Sons of National Defence, it is directly supervised by the Ministry of In ...
, Nanjing, China. He is best known for his work on
grey system theory Grey relational analysis (GRA) was developed by Deng Julong of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. It is one of the most widely used models of grey system theory. GRA uses a specific concept of information. It defines situations with no i ...
.
Education and career
Liu obtained his
BE in Mathematics from
Henan University in 1981, then his MS in Economics (1986) and PhD in Systems Engineering (1998) from
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...
, Wuhan, China.
He was the doctoral student of
Julong Deng, the founder of grey system theory.
Liu was appointed as a lecturer at Henan University in 1985. He was promoted through the ranks, reaching full professor in 1994. In 2000, he moved as a distinguished professor to
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA, ), colloquially known as Nanhang (南航), is a public research university in Nanjing, China. One of the Seven Sons of National Defence, it is directly supervised by the Ministry of In ...
, where he also serves as director of the Institute for Grey Systems Studies. In 2014, he worked as a research professor at
De Montfort University in
Leicester, UK.
Liu is the editor-in-chief of ''Grey Systems: Theory and Application'', and of the ''Journal of Grey System''.
Awards and honors
Liu is an honorary fellow of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, and an honorary editor of "International Journal of Grey Systems" (USA). German Chancellor
Angela Merkel mentioned Liu's contributions to grey system theory in a 2019 speech at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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1955 births
Living people
Chinese mathematicians
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics faculty
Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni
Henan University alumni