A self-taught former factory worker who studied for his engineering degree by night has been elected as the head of one of the world’s leading electronic engineering societies.
This year, Gao Huijun will become the first president of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society from mainland China.
The society, founded in 1951, is a branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an organisation with over 400,000 members in more than 160 countries.
Gao, a professor at the…