Chongfu Huang’s Biography

Chongfu Huang, President of Society for Risk Analysis - China, Chief- in-Charge of Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, is a full professor of Beijing Normal University. He received his B.A.Sc. in Mathematics from Yunnan University, Kunming, China; M.A.Sc. in Earthquake Engineering from Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Harbin, China; Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Beijing Normal University. From 1993 to 1995 he worked in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a postdoctoral research fellow. He is the director of Research Center for System Simulation and Disaster Modeling, Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management Ministry of Civil Affairs & Ministry of Education.

He worked in the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a research associate, in Tokyo University of Science as an associate professor in 1996. As a visiting professor, he worked in University of Ghent, Belgium, in 1997 and in University Nebraska at Omaha, USA, in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Mercator professor and worked in University of Dortmund, Germany. As a visiting professor, he worked again in Tokyo University of Science and University of Ghent in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

He was a member of the International Advisory Board of the iNTeg-Risk project funded by FP7 during 2009-2013. As an advisor, he served for Beijing Muncipal Emergency Management Office to assess risks during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He was invited to be a member of IIASA’s Evaluation Committee on Population and Society in 2007. He is a reviewer invited by AXA Research Fund to review candidate's application during 2009-2014.

His significant contributions to science would involve the discovery of the principle of information diffusion which asserts that, there must be diffusion functions to change crisp data into fuzzy sets for partly filling the gap among the data as incomplete information, so that the recognition will be improved. He found that, the kernel functions serving for the nonparametric estimation play the role of diffusion functions. There are so many researchers who employ the methods based on the principle to deal with small samples.

From 1994, he devoted to study disaster risk issues and to develop the risk discipline in China. In 1996 when he visited Japan, he promoted to organize the First China-Japan Conference on Risk Assessment and Management, which was held in Beijing in 1998 and led up to forming of a risk community in China. His significant contributions to society would be that he established Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention in 2004, which is the unique academic organization authorized by the Chinese government for studying all risk issues.

His current research interests include risk radar, internet of intelligences, dynamic risk analysis, experimental riskology, fuzzy information processing, earthquakes and typhoon.

He has published 238 papers and 20 books. His representative work, Towards Efficient Fuzzy Information Processing, was published by Springer in 2002.

In recognition of the major national and international contributions he has made to the discipline of risk analysis, the Society for Risk Analysis awarded him the 2014 Fellow Award.

Post Address: Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management Beijing Normal University No.19 Xinjiekouwai Street Beijing 100875, China

Official Room: B-926, Jingshi TechnologyBuilding No.12 Xueyuan South Road Haidian District, Beijing, China Tel:+86-10-58805817 hchongfu@126.com

Update：Feb 25, 2016