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Biography

Yan Baoping, female, Han nationality, was born in 1950 and graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1976 with a computation mathematics major. She obtained a doctorate degree from the Institute of Computers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981, majoring in computer networks. In 1992, she received a doctorate degree from her alma mater, with a major in system engineering. Yan completed post-doctoral studies at the National Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center.

Yan has focused her research on the development of computer networks and system engineering, as well as constructing a large-scale information system. Her work includes projects relating to industrial automation, ATM technology-based work station systems, large-scale network and system integration engineering, as well as Internet/Intranet information management systems. Yan has chaired several 863 and nationally-backed projects concerning network management, information security systems, and large-scale scientific databases.

In 1994, Yan became the vice-president in charge of network and system integration at Dawning Information Industry Company, a well-regarded high-tech computer enterprise corporation. Three years later, in 1997, she was assigned to the computer network information center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences as director.

Yan holds the office director position at the Information-Based Construction Leading Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, she is the deputy director of the Scientific Database Expert Commission at the academy as well as the vice-chairwoman of the Chinese Committee of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology.