Name Jifa Gu | Education Peking University | |
Jifa Gu (born 1930s) is a Chinese systems scientist, and Professor of Operations Research and Systems Engineering at the Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for hs proposal of the "oriental Wu-li Shi-li Ren-li system approach."
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Biography
Gu obtains his BA from the Peking University, with a major in computational mathematics in 1957, and obtained his Ph.D. from the USSR Academy of Sciences with a major in operations research in 1963.
In 1957 Gu had started his academic career at Chinese Academy of Sciences at its Institute of Mechanics, Institute of Mathematics, later renamed to Institute of Systems Science. He taught and did research in the fields of operations research, multiple criteria decision analysis, evaluation, and systems engineering. Form 1999 to 2003 he was Professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in its Lab of Socio-Technical Systems of the School of Knowledge Science. Upon his return he proceeded as Professor of Management school of Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and as professor of Management School of Dalian University of Technology.
Gu served as the president of Systems Engineering Society of China from 1994 to 2002; and president of International Federation for Systems Research since 2002. He als served as honorary editor of the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science.
Selected publications
Gu has published 200 papers and more than 30 books and proceedings. A selection: