Prof. Jiafu Wan, South China University of Technology

Dr. Jiafu Wan has been a Professor in School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at South China University of Technology (SCUT) since Sep 2015. He joined in SCUT in May 2014. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from SCUT in Jun 2008. From Jul 2003 to Apr 2014, he respectively served as an Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, and Associate Professor at Guangdong Mechanical & Electrical Polytechnic, China. From Nov 2008 to Jun 2011, he was a Postdoctor of Computer Science and Engineering in SCUT. In 2010, he became an Associate Research Fellow. His research interests include Cyber-Physical Systems, Digital Twin, Big Data Analytics, Industrial AI, Embodied Intelligence, Smart Factory, Fault Diagnosis and Industrial Robot.

He has directed 30 research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong Province, and Guangdong Province Key Areas R & D Program. Thus far, he has published more than 200 scientific papers, including 140+ SCI-indexed papers, 60+ IEEE Trans./Journal papers, 27 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 6 ESI Hot Papers. His research results have been published in some famous IEEE/ACM Journals & Magazines, such as Proceedings of the IEEE, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. According to Google Scholar Citations, his published work has been cited more than 28,000 times. His SCI other citations (sum of times cited without self-citations) reached 9,000 times according to Web of Science Core Collection.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2023-), Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (2019-) and Computers and Electrical Engineering (2018-), and served as Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2019-2021). He is an Editorial Board Member for Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (2018-). He serves as a Managing Editor for IJAACS (2013-) and IJART (2013-). He is a Guest Editor for more than twenty SCI-indexed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, and Journal of Industrial Information Integration. He is an invited reviewer for more than 80 SCI journals.

Professor Jiafu Wan was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2024 and listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (2019-2024). In 2025, he became an AAIA Fellow. He was included in the Stanford's List of World Top 2% Scientists (2020-2024), and also named as Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier (2020-2023). In 2018 and 2023, he won the First and Second Prizes of Science and Technology Progress Award in Guangdong Province, China, respectively. In 2016, Prof. Wan got the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award in Hubei Province, China. He became a Provincial Talent Cultivated by "Thousand-Hundred-Ten" Program of Guangdong Province, China, in 2010.