In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the research and practice of systems and control science, Professor Zeshui Xu of SCU Business School has been appointed an academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS ).

Being an IEEE fellow, IFSA fellow, IET fellow,BCS fellow and RSA fellow, Professor Zeshui Xu has been selected as Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers and included in The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014-2018; and Most Cited Chinese Researchers ( Ranked first in Computer Science, 2014-2016, 2018 ).He has also been awarded the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education ( 2 first prizes and 1 second prize ). He now is a member of editorial board, consultant editorial board, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief for IEEE, TFS, INS, KBS, INFFUS, FODM, IJFS, TEDE, JMLC, APIN and SSCI/SCI. He has published 12 monographs in English through Springer, 500 SSCI/SCI papers, and been cited over 50,000 times. His H- Index is 117.

With its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) consists of 36 members which are countries and international societies. Its academicians are nominated by Member States and international societies according to 11 stringent academic standards, such as academic level and world popularity, and are formally voted by the Executive Committee. Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences is the highest academic honorary title in the field of systems science and systems engineering. At present, there are 70 academicians in the world. 15 of them are Chinese nationals.