Li Huatian

<h2 id="life-and-work">Life and work</h2>
<p>He was born on January 29, 1922 in Songjiang, <a href="/facts/Jiangsu/PYdTsg5R">Jiangsu</a> (now <a href="/facts/Songjiang%2c_Shanghai/sLlWhxAc">Songjiang, Shanghai</a>). He graduated from the <a href="/facts/National_Southwestern_Associated_University/CkPRolyl">National Southwestern Associated University</a> with a degree in <a href="/facts/Electrical_engineering/YYXW1KLW">electrical engineering</a> in 1943 and from <a href="/facts/Harvard_University/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard University</a> with a master's degree in 1948.
</p><p>He returned to China in 1949 to start his research and teaching career as a university professor. He taught at <a href="/facts/Dalian_University_of_Technology/wY51nR01">Dalian University of Technology</a> and <a href="/facts/Northeastern_University_(Liaoning%2c_China)/yCWgRonE">Northeastern University</a>. He served as the department chair of the departments of Automation and Computer Science and the university vice president at Northeastern University.
</p><p>He also served as a vice president for IFAC, the <a href="/facts/International_Federation_of_Automatic_Control/hMeUbJL9">International Federation of Automatic Control</a>. He resigned administration positions in 1984 to return to full-time research and teaching. Meanwhile, he founded the first PhD program in computer science in China.
</p><p>Till his final retirement in 1995, he had published numerous journal papers in areas of automatic control, computer theory, computer networks, and multimedia systems and brought up a lot of younger computer scientists in China. He also co-founded the <a href="/facts/Neusoft_Group/CF94Rhk0">Neusoft Group</a> in early 1990s with his PhD student <a href="/facts/Liu_Jiren/gQ0CB7rA">Liu Jiren</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Professor Li died on January 24, 2007 in <a href="/facts/Shenzhen/B8rnXRf8">Shenzhen</a>, China.
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Silverstein, Michael J. (2012). The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India. Harvard Business Press. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-1-4221-8705-0. <a href="978-1-4221-8705-0" target="_blank">978-1-4221-8705-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Li Huatian