About Xiangsun Zhang’s work
From February to July 1994, Xiangsun Zhang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University. At the time, Zhang was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Zhang Xiangsun received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1965. Aafter graduation, he served as a research intern, researcher, Director, and Executive Vice President of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota from 1981 to 1983 and was elected a member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2014. Zhang is mainly engaged in optimization theory, operations research applications, and interdisciplinary research between operations research and life sciences. He made a breakthrough in the convergence research of Rosen's gradient projection algorithm, and cooperated with his colleagues to give a complete convergence proof, which solved this long-standing problem. Zhang also participated in the design and development of the "National Information System Investment Allocation Decision Support System", and established the "System Theory and Planning Method for Management Information System" and "E-Government and Strategic Planning" based on system theory and optimization methods.