According to the latest news from IEEE, Professor Liu Zhigang from the School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University has been elected IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the field of fault detection and protection of traction power supply systems for high-speed rail.

Liu Zhigang, graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Railway Electrification and a second major in Computer Application, received his PhD in Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2003. He has long been engaged in research on high-speed railway rolling stock-traction system, Pantograph-OCS system . He is currently the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TIM; Associate Editor of IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TITS and IEEE TVT.