2019年05月16日下午，香港科技大學高福榮教授應邀在将軍路校區伟德 官网1号樓403會議室做題為“Smart Manufacturing Plant Research Challenges and Opportunities”的學術報告。報告由南京航空航天大學副校長兼伟德 官网院長姜斌教授主持，伟德 官网的部分師生參加了報告會。
高教授開場先介紹了香港科技大學的優美景色以及自己的科研教學經曆，風趣幽默的語言使得報告會的氛圍輕松和諧。而後，高教授介紹了其團隊在批次過程控制方面所完成的主要工作，針對批次過程需求與特性的四大矛盾，圍繞批次過程“多、重、時、變”的獨有特性，從建模、控制、監測與質量優化四個方面系統性地解決高性能控制問題。另外，高教授對中國制造業如何進入工業4.0時代分享了他的觀點。他強調（1）需要具體手段連接虛拟與物理兩個世界、（2）實現工業智能化的根本在于信息與決策。
高教授及其團隊的系統性、開創性研究工作，對我國智能制造2025的具體工業實踐以及航空、航天、民航領域先進制造的建設規劃具有明确指導意義，讓在場師生深受啟發。最後，高教授與到場師生進行了交流互動，耐心解答了師生們所提出的學術問題并與到會師生代表合影。
附報告人簡介：
Furong Gao is a Chair Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and he was a Professor of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University as a state“1000 Talent Scholar”. At HKUST, he serves as the Funding Head of Division of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation. Funding Director of Center for Polymer Processing and Systems, and South China Director of National Engineering Research Center for Industrial Automation.
Professor Gao received his BEng in Automation from China University of Petroleum in 1985, MEng and PhD both in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in 1989 and 1993 respectively. Before join HKUST, he works as a Senior Research Engineer in charge of Intelligent Process Control (IPC) group at Moldflow International Company ( now, a part of Autodesk Inc), Melboume, Australia. His research interest is in batch process automation and its polymer processing applications. To date, he has authored more 500 journal and conference papers, 6 books, and 70 patents.
