Recently, the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS) announced the results of its 2026 Fellow election. Multiple outstanding scholars from around the world in various artificial intelligence-related fields were selected. Professor Zhang Honggang from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering (FIE) at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has been officially elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS).

As one of the most influential international academic organizations in the field of artificial intelligence, the AAIS Fellow election represents the highest academic recognition in global AI and also indicates important directions and cutting-edge trends in the future development of AI technology.

Professor Zhang Honggang is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and AIIA Fellow. He has long been engaged in research on artificial intelligence, AI-native networks, intelligent computing, cognitive communications, semantic communications, and related fields. He was a pioneer in combining artificial intelligence with communication networks and proposed the concept of “AI-driven network architecture,” which has promoted the interdisciplinary development of AI technology.

He participated in and led the development of the IEEE 802.15 Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless communication and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) international standards. He was the main proposer and major contributor of the DS-UWB standard proposal, which has become one of the two mainstream international standards in the communications industry (DS-UWB and MB-OFDM).

Professor Zhang previously served as Chair of the IEEE TCCN. He has also served as co-chair or TPC chair for several major international conferences, including IEEE Globecom 2008 Symposium, IEEE GreenCom 2010, IEEE ISWCS 2010, IEEE ISCIT 2011, IEEE ICUWB 2013, IEEE OnlineGreenComm 2014, and IEEE OnlineGreenComm 2015. He was the founding Executive Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Intelligent Computing. In 2021, he received the IEEE Communications Society 2021 Outstanding Paper Award and the 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) Best Paper Award.

About the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS)

The International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS) was founded in 2021 and was jointly initiated by 2,539 academicians and 270,000 members worldwide.

AAIS Fellows come from world-renowned universities such as MIT, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Caltech, Princeton University, Cornell University, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Imperial College London, Technical University of Munich, University of Toronto, University of Sydney, University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University, and many others. The Academy also includes world-class AI scientists from top global technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Meta, Intel, IBM, Samsung, Huawei, and others.

The International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS) currently has 2,539 Fellows, including 2 Nobel Prize laureates, 3 ACM Turing Award winners, and hundreds of members from top national academies worldwide (such as the US National Academies, UK Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering, and European Academy of Sciences). It also includes 1,693 IEEE Fellows, 300 ACM Fellows, and many other prominent Fellows from leading international organizations.