Prof Qiang Shen

MEng, MSc, PhD, DSc, FBCS, FLSW, FREng

Qiang Shen is a Professor and has previously served two terms as Pro Vice-Chancellor at Aberystwyth University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (the national academy of Wales).

Professor Shen is currently Chair of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 Sub-panel for Computer Science and Informatics and a member of Main Panel B: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics. He previously served on the computing panels for REF 2014 and REF 2021, and was also a member of the People, Culture and Environment Pilot Panel for REF 2029. He was honoured to be selected as a 2012 London Olympic Torchbearer in celebration of Alan Turing’s centenary. He is the 25th recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems.