In celebration of the 45th anniversary of the City University of Macau, the University hosted a Doctor honoris causa Lecture today at the Taipa Campus, to foster academic exchange and explore frontier research topics. The event featured Guan Xiaohong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), renowned systems engineering expert, and honorary doctor of CityU Macau. Speaking under the theme “Cyber-Physical Energy Systems for Resolving the Global Warming Crisis in the Age of Intelligence and Networking”, he shared cutting-edge academic insights and practical experiences, enriching the anniversary celebrations with profound scholarly depth.
Rector Jun Liu extended a warm welcome to Academician Guan, noting the timely significance of the lecture topic. He highlighted that as a core city within the Greater Bay Area, Macao is actively pursuing green and low-carbon development. Rector Liu expressed confidence that Guan’s presentation would not only broaden the academic horizons of faculty and students in energy science and intelligent technology but also provide valuable intellectual inspiration for green development and technological innovation in Macao and beyond.
During the lecture, Academician Guan began by outlining “The Development Trends of Information Science and Technology: Integration of Informatization and Industrialization”. He systematically elaborated on how Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), driven by the waves of networking and intelligence, can empower the transformation of energy structures to combat global warming. He emphasized that to address the supply-demand balancing challenges posed by integrating renewable energy into the grid, establishing a new energy architecture characterized by deep integration among information systems, physical systems, and human stakeholders has become an essential pathway to achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.
