Wu Jianping (; born 4 October 1953), also known as Jian-Ping Wu, is a Chinese computer scientist. He is Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Technology at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

. He is also Chairman of the

China Education and Research Network The China Education and Research Network (CERNET; ) is the first nationwide education and research computer network in China. The CERNET project is funded by the Chinese government and directly managed by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is ...

(CERNET) Technical Board and director of the CERNET center, and vice president of the China Internet Association.

Biography

Wu was born on 4 October 1953 in

Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

, China, with his ancestral home in

Juye County Juye () is a county in western Shandong province which is under the administration of Heze municipality. The county is 1,303 square km in area and has a population of approximately 910,000. History Juye originally belonged to Huxi prefecture. Q ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

. Wu graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of

in 1977, and earned his master's degree (1982) and Ph.D. (1997) in computer science and technology, also from Tsinghua. He was a visiting scholar at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

in Canada from 1987 to 1989. His research interests include computer architectures, routing and protocols. As one of main initiators and promoters of Next-Generation Internet (NGI) in China, he is in charge of the CERNET2 backbone, which deployed the world's largest IPv6 Internet backbone. He was awarded the 2010

Jonathan B. Postel Service Award The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Jon Postel. The award has been presented most years since 1999 by the Internet Society to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications commu ...

. for his services to Internet developments in China. Wu was elected an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

in 2015. In September 2019, he was elected an International Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

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