Zixing Cai got a diploma and graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jiao Tong University at Xi’an, China in 1962. He has been doing teaching and research work on artificial intelligence, computational intelligence，automatic control, computer science, and intelligent robotics in the Center for Intelligent Systems and Software, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China since 1962. Now he is a Professor in CSU and the chief scientist in the Hunan Zixing AI Academy. He got a Certificate from ichuan International Studies University, Chengdu, China in 1982. During May to December of 1983, as a visiting scholar he visited the Center of Robotics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Nevada at Reno, Nevada, USA. Then as a post-doctoral researcher he visited the Advanced Automation Research Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA during December 1983 to June 1985. During October 1988 to August 1989, he was a senior research scientist in the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During October 1989 to September 1990 he visited the National Laboratory of Machine Perception, Center of Information, Beijing University as a visiting research professor. He got a Certificate from Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China in 1992. During September 1992 to March 1993, as a senior visiting scholar he visited the NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration and Department of Electrical, Computer and System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA as a visiting professor. Since February 1989, he has become an UN (United Nations) Expert granted by UNIDO, the United Nations Industry Development Organization. He became a Member of a  Senior Member of IEEE since 1998. During 2000-2014 he was charged of Instructor of Center for Intelligent Systems, Central South University. During 2000-2013 he held the post of President of Academic Committee of School of Information S&E, CSU. During May to September of 2004 he visited the Saint Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation, Academy of Russia as a senior visiting scientist. During 2005-2014 he was responsible for Chairman of Professor Committee of School of Information S&E, CSU. During April to August of 2007 he visited the Denmark Technical University as a visiting professor. He has been a Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Award Committee and a Member of IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee since 2015. In 2016 he was appointed as the vice president of Expert Advisory Committee of Intelligent Manufacturing 2025, Hunan Province, and was charged of the Chief Scientist of Hunan AI Research Institute since 2016.

He was elected as a member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1998, member the International Academy of Navigation and Motion Control in 2004. He has been elected to become an IEEE Fellow in November of 2016 and an IEEE Life Fellow in September of 2018.

Professor Cai’s research interests include Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Robotics, Industry Automation and Intelligent Control. More than 1000 papers and articles have been published since 1985. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 monographs/textbooks such as Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications, Robotics: Principles and Applications, Robotics, Intelligent Control, Intelligent Control: Principles, Techniques and Applications, Advanced Expert Systems: Principles, Design and Applications, Artificial Intelligence with Application to Decision-Making Systems, Intelligent Control: Principles and Applications, Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, Theories and Methods for Navigation Control of Mobile Robots under Unknown Environments, Fundamentals of Robotics, Synergy Principles and Technologies of Multi-mobile Robots, Artificial Immune System Based on Normal Model and Its Applications, Self-location Technologies of Mobile Robot under Unknown Environments, Intelligent Kingdom, Intelligent Systems: Principles, Algorithms and Applications, Key Techniques of Navigation Control for Mobile Robots under Unknown Environment, Sensing, Mapping and Object-tracking of Intelligent Driving Vehicle, etc.

A special mention should be given to the fact he used the technique of expert system to high-level robot planning successfully in 1985 for the first time in the world. In 1986, he proposed the idea of Four-element Intersected Structural Theory of Intelligent Control (AI, Cybernetics, Informatics and Operation Research) for the first time. Over 30 awards of S&T as well as education have been received. He has obtained the Chinese Excellent Textbook Prize (First-class) in 1996 and 2002 respectively. He has gained the First-class Prize of excellent papers of the Hunan Province in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 etc. In 1992, he has granted as an Excellent Contributory Expert by Chinese government. In 2003 he was granted as Chinese “State Eminent Professor”. In 2009 he was granted a prize of “Xu Teli Education”. In 2014 he was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award of Intelligence Science and Technology of China named by Wu Wenjun. In November of 2017 he was selected in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics.

Professor Cai has been the Chief Professor, the President of Academic Degree Committee, the Chairman of Professor Committee, Director of the Research Center for Intelligent Systems/ Software, doctor’s supervisor at the School of Science and Engineering, Central South University. He is also the Member of the Board of Directors or Standing Directors for the followings: Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, Vice President), Chinese Society of Computer Vision and Intelligent Control (CVIC, CAAI), Society of Intelligent Robots (SIR, CAAI, as honor President), Chinese Association of Automation(CAA), Society of Intelligent Automation, CAA, Society of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Chinese Federation of Computer (CFC), Sub-Society of Automation, Chinese Association of Computer Users, Chinese University Forum on Automation and Robotics.

In teaching and higher education field, Professor Cai have charged 10 national teaching reform projects such as the State Refinement Course and Demonstration Course of Artificial Intelligence, the State Refinement Course of Intelligent Control, the State Teaching Team of the Series Basic Courses of Intelligent Science and Technique, the State Refinement Video Open Course of Artificial Intelligence PK Human Intelligence, the State Refinement Resource Sharing Course of Intelligent Control Systems, the State Refinement Resource Sharing Course of Dreams and Realities of Artificial Intelligence, etc.

1938年3月2日（农历二月初一）出生于福建省莆田县灵川乡（今福建省莆田市城厢区东海镇）西厝村一个贫农家庭。1944年9月，进入家乡西厝小学读书。1950年6月，高小毕业于福建省莆田县善乡小学。1950年7月，考入福建省立莆田中学（后更名为福建省莆田第一中学）。1954年6月，福建省莆田第一中学初中毕业。1954年1月，加入中国新民主主义青年团，后更名为中国共产主义青年团。1954年9月，考入福建省莆田第一中学高中。1956年5月，评为福建省莆田第一中学“三好学生”，并于1956年8月代表学校出席在泉州召开福建省晋江地区三好学生代表大会。1957年6月，高中毕业于福建省莆田第一中学。1957年9月考入交通大学（1959年后更名西安交通大学）电气工程系工业电气化与自动化专业学习。

1962年毕业于西安交通大学电气工程系工业自动化专业，1962年至今在中南大学（原中南矿冶学院、中南工业大学）从事人工智能、机器人学、智能控制等教学和科研工作。

1986年任中南工业大学自动控制工程系副教授，1991年6月起任教授。1992年起获国务院政府津贴，1993年被国务院学位委员会批准为博士生导师。曾任中南大学信息科学与工程学院学位委员会主席、教授委员会主任。

1983-1985年作为访问学者留学美国普渡大学和内华达大学。1983年12月-1985年6月在普渡大学师从国际模式识别之父、国际智能控制学科的奠基者、美国国家工程科学院院士K S Fu（傅京孙）教授研修人工智能与机器人学。1988-1990年任中国科学院自动化研究所和北京大学信息科学中心客座研究员,1992-93年以高级访问学者身份再度留美，任美国伦塞勒工业大学客座教授。2004年4-7月为俄罗斯科学院圣彼得堡信息学与自动化研究所客座研究员。2007年5－8月受聘丹麦技术大学客座教授。是联合国专家、IEEE Fellow（院士）、IEEE终身院士、国际导航与运动控制科学院院士、纽约科学院院士，是首届全国高校国家级教学名师奖、吴文俊人工智能科技奖成就奖、徐特立教育奖和宝钢全国优秀教师奖特等奖获得者。2019年12月26日当选“新中国70周年湖湘人物”。

从事高等教育57年，指导博士和硕士生（含留学硕士生）近四百名，为上千研究生和上万本科生授课，被誉为“蔡自兴教授百千万教育工程”。主持国家教育部质量工程项目8个，包括国家级精品课程（2门）、国家级双语教学示范课程、国家级精品视频公开课、国家级教学团队、国家级精品资源共享课（2门）和国家级新世纪网络课程等。坚持智能科学技术研究36年，涉及人工智能基础、专家系统、智能机器人、无人驾驶、智慧医疗、智能控制等研究方向，是我国人工智能、智能控制、机器人学诸学科的学术带头人之一，被誉为“中国人工智能教育第一人”、“中国智能控制的奠基者”和“中国智能机器人学科的创始人”。撰写出版人工智能领域中英文学术著作50多部，包括国内首部具有自主知识产权的人工智能、机器人学、智能控制著作和国际首部智能控制系统专著等。在国内外发表学术论文千余篇，他引数万次，拥有国内外百万高层读者，并荣登“2017科睿唯安（Clarivate Analytics）高被引科学家”榜单。

现为中南大学教授、博士生导师，湖南省自兴人工智能研究院首席科学家。历任第八届湖南省政协副主席和全国政协第九届和第十届委员会委员，兼任中国人工智能学会第3-4届副理事长及其智能机器人分会/专业委员会创会理事长/主任、中国自动化学会理事及其智能自动化专业委员会委员/顾问、中国计算机学会人工智能与模式识别专业委员会委员，IEEE计算智能学会评奖委员会委员和IEEE CIS进化计算技术委员会委员等。

主要从事智能系统、人工智能、智能控制、智能机器人研究。在智能系统、机器人学和自动控制等学科领域具有很高的知名度，是我国人工智能、智能控制、智能机器人学诸学科的学术带头人之一，为我国智能科学技术的发展做出重要贡献，被誉为“中国人工智能教育第一人”、“中国智能机器人学科创始人”和“中国智能控制奠基者”。

1978年提出晶闸管（可控硅）直流可逆自动调速系统控制指令的数学模型。1985年，他在国际上首创机器人规划专家系统。1986年，他在国际上率先提出了智能控制的“四元交集结构理论”，被收入《中国大百科全书》。1999年提出进化控制的思想和体系结构，并建立了进化控制系统原型。2001年提出智能科学学科体系的初步框架和学科特征。2003年提出免疫控制的思想和免疫控制系统的一般结构。

主持并完成国家自然科学基金重点项目在内的科教研究30多项，其中获国际奖励2项，国家级奖励3项，省部级以上奖励10多项。己在国内外出版专著、教材50部，发表学术论文1000多篇。其中，《人工智能及其应用》、《机器人原理及其应用》、《智能控制》和《智能系统原理、算法与应用》分别是我国智能科学技术领域有关人工智能、智能机器人、智能控制和智能系统的首部著作，已为众多高校用作教材或教参。Intelligent Control: Principles, Techniques and Applications 在国外出版，成为国际上首部智能控制系统专著。这些著作已先后出版近100万册，拥有数百万高层读者。

在教学教育上，千方百计克服困难，坚持在教学第一线为学生，特别是本科生上课。57年来，长期为上万名本科生和上千名研究生讲课，共指导培养博士和硕士近200名，指导留学硕士课程论文200多人，被誉为“蔡教授的百千万教育工程”。还主持8项国家教育部质量工程项目，包括国家级精品课程（2门）、全国双语教学示范课程、国家级精品视频公开课、国家级优秀网络课程、国家级教学团队各一门（项）和国家级精品资源共享课（2门）等。

积极参政议政，反映社情民意，关注国计民生和社会进步。己在全国政协和湖南省政协等会议上提出100多项提案和建议，并结集出版《蔡自兴委员政协提案选辑》。历任湖南省政协第七届委员会委员、第八届委员会委员、常委、副主席，全国政协第九、十届委员会委员,民革中央第九、十届委员会委员，第十届常委，民革湖南省第八届委员会委员，第九届委员会委员、常委，第十届委员会委员、常委、主任委员，第十一届委员会名誉主任委员。

兼任湖南省科学作家协会名誉理事长、《智能系统学报》编委会副主任,《控制理论与应用》、《机器人》、《控制与决策》、《控制工程》、《冶金自动化》、《计算技术与自动化》等6杂志和2国际期刊编委，并任国防科技大学、北京航空航天大学、北京邮电大学、美国RPI、丹麦技术大学等校兼职/客座教授，北京大学、中国科学院自动化研究所、俄罗斯科学院圣彼得堡自动化与信息学研究所等校所客座研究员，是国际科技发展联合会会员、国际小型和微型计算机学会会员等。曾任国际智能自动化联合会理事、国家自然科学基金委学科评议组成员等职。

Short CV of Prof Zixing CAI
(Edition of April 2019)

Zixing Cai got a diploma and graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jiao Tong University at Xi’an, China in 1962. He has been doing teaching and research work on artificial intelligence, computational intelligence，automatic control, computer science, and intelligent robotics in the Center for Intelligent Systems and Software, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China since 1962. Now he is a Professor in CSU and the chief scientist in the Hunan Zixing AI Academy. He got a Certificate from ichuan International Studies University, Chengdu, China in 1982. During May to December of 1983, as a visiting scholar he visited the Center of Robotics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Nevada at Reno, Nevada, USA. Then as a post-doctoral researcher he visited the Advanced Automation Research Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA during December 1983 to June 1985. During October 1988 to August 1989, he was a senior research scientist in the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During October 1989 to September 1990 he visited the National Laboratory of Machine Perception, Center of Information, Beijing University as a visiting research professor. He got a Certificate from Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China in 1992. During September 1992 to March 1993, as a senior visiting scholar he visited the NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration and Department of Electrical, Computer and System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA as a visiting professor. Since February 1989, he has become an UN (United Nations) Expert granted by UNIDO, the United Nations Industry Development Organization. He became a Member of a Senior Member of IEEE since 1998. During 2000-2014 he was charged of Instructor of Center for Intelligent Systems, Central South University. During 2000-2013 he held the post of President of Academic Committee of School of Information S&E, CSU. During May to September of 2004 he visited the Saint Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation, Academy of Russia as a senior visiting scientist. During 2005-2014 he was responsible for Chairman of Professor Committee of School of Information S&E, CSU. During April to August of 2007 he visited the Denmark Technical University as a visiting professor. He has been a Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Award Committee and a Member of IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee since 2015. In 2016 he was appointed as the vice president of Expert Advisory Committee of Intelligent Manufacturing 2025, Hunan Province, and was charged of the Chief Scientist of Hunan AI Research Institute since 2016.

He was elected as a member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1998, member the International Academy of Navigation and Motion Control in 2004. He has been elected to become an IEEE Fellow in November of 2016 and an IEEE Life Fellow in September of 2018.

Professor Cai’s research interests include Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Robotics, Industry Automation and Intelligent Control. More than 1000 papers and articles have been published since 1985. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 monographs/textbooks such as Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications, Robotics: Principles and Applications, Robotics, Intelligent Control, Intelligent Control: Principles, Techniques and Applications, Advanced Expert Systems: Principles, Design and Applications, Artificial Intelligence with Application to Decision-Making Systems, Intelligent Control: Principles and Applications, Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, Theories and Methods for Navigation Control of Mobile Robots under Unknown Environments, Fundamentals of Robotics, Synergy Principles and Technologies of Multi-mobile Robots, Artificial Immune System Based on Normal Model and Its Applications, Self-location Technologies of Mobile Robot under Unknown Environments, Intelligent Kingdom, Intelligent Systems: Principles, Algorithms and Applications, Key Techniques of Navigation Control for Mobile Robots under Unknown Environment, Sensing, Mapping and Object-tracking of Intelligent Driving Vehicle, etc.

A special mention should be given to the fact he used the technique of expert system to high-level robot planning successfully in 1985 for the first time in the world. In 1986, he proposed the idea of Four-element Intersected Structural Theory of Intelligent Control (AI, Cybernetics, Informatics and Operation Research) for the first time. Over 30 awards of S&T as well as education have been received. He has obtained the Chinese Excellent Textbook Prize (First-class) in 1996 and 2002 respectively. He has gained the First-class Prize of excellent papers of the Hunan Province in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 etc. In 1992, he has granted as an Excellent Contributory Expert by Chinese government. In 2003 he was granted as Chinese “State Eminent Professor”. In 2009 he was granted a prize of “Xu Teli Education”. In 2014 he was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award of Intelligence Science and Technology of China named by Wu Wenjun. In November of 2017 he was selected in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics.

Professor Cai has been the Chief Professor, the President of Academic Degree Committee, the Chairman of Professor Committee, Director of the Research Center for Intelligent Systems/ Software, doctor’s supervisor at the School of Science and Engineering, Central South University. He is also the Member of the Board of Directors or Standing Directors for the followings: Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, Vice President), Chinese Society of Computer Vision and Intelligent Control (CVIC, CAAI), Society of Intelligent Robots (SIR, CAAI, as honor President), Chinese Association of Automation(CAA), Society of Intelligent Automation, CAA, Society of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Chinese Federation of Computer (CFC), Sub-Society of Automation, Chinese Association of Computer Users, Chinese University Forum on Automation and Robotics.

In teaching and higher education field, Professor Cai have charged 10 national teaching reform projects such as the State Refinement Course and Demonstration Course of Artificial Intelligence, the State Refinement Course of Intelligent Control, the State Teaching Team of the Series Basic Courses of Intelligent Science and Technique, the State Refinement Video Open Course of Artificial Intelligence PK Human Intelligence, the State Refinement Resource Sharing Course of Intelligent Control Systems, the State Refinement Resource Sharing Course of Dreams and Realities of Artificial Intelligence, etc.