Professor Zhou Li Gao, a well-known educator, an electronic technology expert, and the first president of Macau University of Science and Technology. He has long been engaged in computer processing research in the fields of signal processing, pattern recognition and medicine, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of science and technology in Macao and the development of a diversified higher education in Macao. His fetal monitoring and fetal ECG signal processing topics have won the second prize of scientific and technological progress of the State Education Commission of China. He has successively won the ‘20th Century Achievement Award’ from the Cambridge International Biographical Centre in the United Kingdom, the ‘Professional Merit Medal of the Macau Government’ from the Governor of Macao Mr. Welch, and the Certificate of ‘Honorific Title’ from the Macao S.A.R. government.