Prof. Xiangshi REN is a lifetime tenured professor in the School of Information and founding director of the Center for Human-Engaged Computing (CHEC) at Kochi University of Technology. He is a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), a fellow of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). He is founding president and honorary lifetime president of the International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction (ICACHI). He has been named as one of the Asian Human-Computer Interaction Heroes in ACM CHI 2015. He was a visiting faculty researcher at IBM Research (Almaden), visiting professor at the University of Toronto and several universities in China. Prof. Ren has been working on fundamental studies in the field of human-computer Interaction (HCI) for around 30 years. He has credits in more than 300 published research papers, and has received a large number of grants from various institutions and awards for various achievements including ACM ISS 2016 best paper award, IEEE SmartComp 2017 best community paper award, ACM CHI 2017 best paper award, CHI 2019 honourable mention award, and CCF Transactions best paper award 2019. Eighteen Ph.D. students have obtained their Ph.D. degrees and five postdoctoral fellowships have been supervised under Prof. Ren’s direction.

In recent years, he and his colleagues have established a new conceptual framework: Human-Engaged Computing (HEC) for rethinking the relationship between humans and computers which refers to the synergism of human capacities and technological capabilities. This framework (HEC) has been briefed in an IEEE article (Computer, August 2016) and in CCF Transactions (Jan 2019), and presented in an invited panel about the future relationship between humans and computers (AI) at ACM CHI 2017 as well as various keynote talks, which are highly recognized by HCI pioneers and researchers.  He and his colleagues have established a unique research framework based on information technology, incorporating methodologies such as user studies, human performance modeling, the development of new algorithms and systematically applying HCI and HEC theories to technical design, development and applications for the augmentation of human capacities, wellbeing and enhancement. His book “Human-Engaged Computing” (Chinese version) will be appeared in this summer.

More detailed information can be found at http://xiangshiren.com

Full resume can be downloaded at http://www.info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/ren/pdf/Xiangshi-REN-CV.pdf

The Center for Human-Engaged Computing (CHEC) at http://xrenlab.com/

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任教授现任高知工科大学信息学院终身教授，人机共协研究所（Center for Human-Engaged Computing）所长。日本工程院外籍院士，日本情报处理学会会士。2015年在人机交互领域国际顶会上入选Asian Human-Computer Interaction Heroes，2016年入选世界华人华侨协会人机交互领军人物。中国科学技术协会首批海智特聘专家；科技导报编委。他曾任IBM Almaden研究中心客座研究员，多伦多大学及国内多所大学的客座或兼职教授。任教授在人机交互领域从事基础研究和教育工作近30年，培养了众多包括十多个国家的留学生在内的博士和博士后人才，分别活跃于亚洲、非洲、欧洲、大洋洲。多次获ACM、 IEEE、CCF、IPSJ等学会相关会议和期刊的论文奖。近年，任教授着眼于人类社会的未来，思考人类和技术之间的理想关系，提出了基于东方哲学“中庸”的一个新概念：人机共协计算 (Human-Engaged Computing)，并正在推动这一新的研究领域。 他的著书《人机共协计算》今秋将由清华大学出版社出版。

任教授在2012年和来自世界各国家和地区的27名海外华人华侨学者们于美国奥斯丁ACM CHI 2012期间创建了世界华人华侨人机交互协会 (icachi.org)并担任创会会长（现任终身名誉会长）。协会大多数会员在海外取得博士或硕士学位，且在国外各大学或企业工作多年，为海外建业创业的科技和专业精英，部分会员已在中国大学任职或成功围绕人机交互技术创业。作为一个有效的平台，协会多年来在交流学习、资源及人才方面为国内有关部门和企业提供了高质量的支持和服务，受到工业界和学术界的广泛支持，在国际上已成为极有影响力和口碑的华人学术团体。其年会Chinese CHI已经成为华人华侨人机交互领域的世界级论坛。