Wu Qidi

Wu Qidi ( Chinese  吴启迪 ; * 1947 in Yongjia in Wenzhou ) is a Chinese scientist, President of Tongji University (1995-2003) and since 2003 Deputy Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China.

Life

Wu Qidi studied at Beijing's Tsinghua University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast technology and a master's degree in automation technology. From 1970 to 1975 she worked in the Chinese industry for eight years. In addition, she was involved in the research institute for standardization in the Ministry of Electrical Industry in Beijing.

In 1985, she was at the ETH Zurich with a thesis "Stability Analysis of control systems with constraints" in the Department of Electrical Engineering Dr. sc. techn. PhD . After a visiting professorship at the ETHZ, she worked at Tongji University in Shanghai as professor, director of the chair for automation, vice dean of the faculty for electrical engineering, vice president of the university and since 1995 as president of Tongji University.

She has been Deputy Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and in this role she is responsible for the higher education system of more than 1,500 Chinese universities with around 20 million students and for vocational training with 12 million vocational students.

She is married with two children and lives in Beijing.

Awards and honors

• "Young Teachers of the Pioneering Dr. FOK Ying-tung Education Fund ”of the state education commission
• Second Prize from the Great Science and Technology Reform Commission for National Security of China
• "Young Experts with Outstanding Achievements" (1996)
• "Outstanding Scholars After Studying Abroad" (1997)
• "Ten National Outstanding Women" (1998)
• Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany¨ (1999)

Web links

• "Presidential Lecture" by China's Vice Minister of Education Wu Qidi: Cooperation as an opportunity
• Qidi Wu: "The future lies in promoting international exchange" (speech on the 150th anniversary of ETH Zurich) (PDF file; 147 kB)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Qidi is the first name.