Professor K. T. Fang of the Division of Science & Technology, UIC was given the 2008 State Natural Science Award (Second Level) at a ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People attended by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on January 9, 2009.
Professor Fang and his collaborator, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Wang Yuan, were honored for the publication and research of their project "Theory, methodology and applications of the uniform design" which extended for a period of 30 years.
Their work is a sample of multidisciplinary approach combining the number theory, experimental design and stochastics optimization which opens to a new research direction and plays an important role in developing space technology and defense industries. More than 2000 case studies have been conducted on the use of this Uniform Design Theory all over the world.
A total of 34 Second Level awards were given for the year 2008 at the ceremony. There were no First Level awards for the year in this category. The honor of this achievement marks the first major academic award granted to any scholar of UIC.
| Science Times (China, Jan. 12, 2009)
They firstly created theory and methodology of the uniform design, explored internal relationships among the classical factorial design, modern optimal design, the supersaturated design, the combinatorial design and the uniform design. Their work has crossed several fields such as the number theory, functional analysis, experimental design, stochastic optimization and computational complexity. This work can be regarded as a model of a cross-filed multidisciplinary study, open a large scale of research areas, and establish a Chinese school of thought. Their work has been recognized by the international community. The uniform design has been popularly used in many areas, such as space science, chemical engineering, pharmaceutics, material industrial, automobiles.
|
