Mengchu Zhou is a Chinese Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology and at Macau University of Science and Technology. He is the Chairman of IKAS Industries of Shenzhen in China. He was the project leader of a national "973" plan in China. and a Board Member of OneSmart Education Group headquartered in China.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation. Zhou is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/Wiley Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. In 2015, he received the Norbert Wiener Award for "fundamental contributions to the area of Petri net theory and applications to discrete event systems," from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society which also awarded him the Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award for Best Paper award in 2010.