Hao Bailin

1. E-mail: hao@itp.ac.cn
Webpage: http://www.itp.ac.cn/~hao/

2. Education:

• 1953-1954 The College of Russian Language, Beijing.

• 1954-1956 The Institute for Engineering Economics, Mining Department, Kharkov, USSR.

• 1956-1959 The Kharkov State University, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Diploma with Honours, Kharkov, USSR.

• 1961-1963 The Moscow State University, Department of Physics, Graduate School, Moscow.

3. Employment History:

• 1959-1978: The Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing. Research Assistant (1959- 1961); Research Associate (1963-1977); Deputy Head of the Theoretical Division (1963- 1969); Research Professor (1978); Deputy-Director (1977-1978).

• 1978-present: The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing. Research Professor, Head of Division II (1979-1984); Deputy-Director (1984-1987); Director (1990 - 1994).

4. Honours and Awards:

• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, elected November 1980.

• Member, The Third World Academy of Science, elected 1995.

• The CAS Award for Important Achievement in Science and Technology (for theoretical work on magnetic-coated antennas), Academia Sinica, 1978.

• The CAS Award for Progress in Science and Technology (for work on three-dimensional lattice statistical model), shared with Shi He, Xu yi-zhao, Fu Hong, and R. Conte, second rank, Academia Sinica, 1987.

• The CAS Award in Natural Science (for work on applied symbolic dynamics), shared with Zheng Wei-mou, first rank, Academia Sinica, 1992.

• National Award in Natural Science (for work on applied symbolic dynamics), shared with Zheng Wei-mou, Second rank, China, 1993.

• Award for Progress in Science and Technology, State Commission for Defense Science and Engineering, Second rank, 1997.

• The CAS Award in Natural Science (for work on unified formalism for equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems), shared with Zhou Guang-zhao, Su Zhao-bin, and Yu Lu, first rank, Academia Sinica, 1999.

• National Award in Natural Science (for work on unified formalism for equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems), shared with Zhou Guang-zhao, Su Zhao-bin, and Yu Lu, second rank, 2000.

• The ISI "Classic Citation Award" for high-impact papers in 1981 - 1998.

The (Hong Kong based) He Liang He Li Foundation Award for Scientific and Technolog- ical Progress (Physics) in 2001.

5. Publications (for titles see my webpage)

• 130 scientific papers.

• 11 books written (2 in English).

• 8 books edited (6 in English).

• 2 books translated from Russian into Chinese.

• 70 miscellaneous papers.

6. Scientific Interests

• I tried to solve the 3-dimensional Ising model during so-called "cultural revolution" in China (1966-1976) and ended up with a closed-form approximation to the partition func- tion. See my review in Chaos and Order in Nature, edited by Hermann Haken, Springer- Verlag, 1981, 144-153.

• With colleagues we developed a unified Green's function formalism for equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems. Our long review article in Physics Reports 118 (1985) has got an ISI "Classic Citation Award" for high-impact papers in 1981-1998.

• Many colleagues may know the Introductory and Reprints volume Chaos that I edited (World Scientific Publishing Co., 1984, 1990), but I do not count it as a real contribution. To me the two monographs Elementary Symbolic Dynamics and Chaos in Dissipative Systems (1989) and Applied Symbolic Dynamics and Chaos (1998) are more significant, as they summarize the work of our group on symbolic dynamics from 1980 to 1999.

• I turned to the analysis of symbolic sequences of biological origin since mid 1997. Our papers in this new for me direction started to appear since 2000. With Shuyu Zhang we published a Handbook on Bioinformatics in Chinese in 2000 (Shanghai SciTech Publisher).

• Being a scientist in a developing country, Ihave devoted a significant partofmy life to solving applied problems. I calculated fault currents and power ow for the Northeast China power network, the shock loading problem for a blooming mill in a steel plant (1971 - 1976), the radiation field of magnetically coated antenna trying to diminish the size of the latter (1969 - 1974), analysis of seismic activity of Northern China (1976 - 1980). Publications on these topics all appeared in Chinese. In addition, I was the author of the first FORTRAN textbook in Chinese (1977, 1980, 1987).

7. Research during SFI International Fellowship

• Complexity of DNA and protein sequences, trying to go beyond "standard" statistical analysis by invoking linguistic, combinatorial, and graph theory approaches

• A comparison of the Chinese and the "Western" scientific thinking, in particular, was there a "wholistic" approach in China as compared to reductionist approach in the "West".

• Besides working as an individual, I may play some role in helping to get more bright young Chinese to the SFI programs and to conduct some scientific activities in China related to or partly supported by SFI.