Guangnan Ni

academician at China Engineering Academy

Computer expert, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, researcher of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ni Guangnan has been engaged in the research and development of computers and their applications. He has participated in the development of the first electronic tube computer (119 machine) designed by China. In the 1960s and 1970s, he carried out research on Chinese character processing and character recognition. He pioneered the automatic function in the process of inputting Chinese characters.

Invited members of the Fifth National Youth Federation, representatives of the Eighth National People's Congress, members of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 2002-2011 Chairman of the Chinese Information Society of China, and Beijing Counselor from 2006 to 2010.