Recently, A.A. Speransky, Vice President of Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE), sent a congratulatory letter to Professor Xue Wei on his election as a foreign academician of RAE. This decision was made after the strict process of form review, material review, conference defense, voting of the Presidium, and based on Professor Xue Wei’s outstanding contributions to leading technological innovation and promoting industrial development in the field of laser processing. According to the letter, it is hoped that Professor Xue Wei can achieve more scientific and technological innovations and collaboration aimed at the sustainable development in China and Russia.

Founded in 1990, Russian Academy of Engineering is a scientific institution with important academic influence across the globe and an All-Russian public organization. It used to be the Soviet Academy of Engineering, and was later joined by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Ministry of Engineering, the Ministry of National Defense, the Aerospace Administration and other departments before becoming a cross industry institution. There are more than 1500 academicians, including over 100 foreign ones. Foreign academicians are elected by the Presidium of RAE from scientists who have made significant achievements in science, technology and other fields. Song Jian, Xu Kuandi, the former presidents of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Li Xiaohong, the current president are also the foreign academicians of RAE.

Xue Wei, D. E., a second level professor, doctoral supervisor, former vice president of Wenzhou University, expert receiving special subsidies from the State Council, first member of the academician and expert advisory committee of the China  Association of Inventions, is currently the director of the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Laser Processing Robots, director of the Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Laser Processing Robots, chairman and chief scientist of the Institute of Laser and Optoelectronic Intelligent Manufacturing of Wenzhou University, and head of the first-class discipline of mechanical engineering in Zhejiang Province.

Professor Xue Wei has been pursuing innovation to serve the national strategy. He has been engaged in the research on laser intelligent manufacturing for a long time, carried out cooperation with Russia, the United States and other countries, and led the Zhejiang-Russia (Wenzhou University) joint laboratory for international cooperation in ultrafast laser processing. He undertook more than 20 national and provincial projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc., won over 10 awards such as the China Patent Gold Award, the first prize of Zhejiang Science and Technology Award, and the first prize of China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award. He holds 55 invention patents, including 2 U.S. authorized invention patents, and published more than 170 academic papers, among which over 100 were SCI indexed.

He has been working hard to serve the local industry. With his research team, in December 2016, he worked with the local government to build the Institute of Laser and Optoelectronic Intelligent Manufacturing of Wenzhou University, a public institution with the nature of an independent legal person, and serves as the chairman and chief scientist. This Institute has become the most marked example of Wenzhou University’s efforts to serve local industries. After more than five years, the Institute has undertaken more than 50 national and provincial projects, obtained more than 180 invention patents, and commercialized 70 research findings. It also incubated 23 science and innovation enterprises, including national high-tech enterprises and small and medium-sized technology-based enterprises, and established close cooperation with more than 160 enterprises. Up till now, its income related to technology transfer, technology development, technology consulting and technical services has exceeded 45 million yuan. The Institute has won nine ministerial and provincial titles such as one of the first tranche of provincial innovative institutions, the provincial engineering research center, the provincial postdoctoral workstation, the provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base, provincial small and medium-sized enterprise public service demonstration platform.

He has been teaching students with his lofty character. He is the head of the national first-class professional construction site of industrial engineering, director of Zhejiang Provincial Key Construction Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, and chairman of South Zhejiang (Wenzhou) Digital Economy Industry-Education Integration Alliance. He undertook the new engineering research and practice project of the Ministry of Education, and edited five textbooks, including Introduction to Industrial Engineering which was awarded the National Key Publication of the 13th Five Year Plan, the innovative textbook of the 13th Five Year Plan of Zhejiang Province, the excellent textbook of the 13th Five Year Plan of Zhejiang Province, and the key textbook of the 14th Five Year Plan of Zhejiang Province. He published more than 20 papers on teaching in China Higher Education Research, Creative Education, Guangming Daily, etc., and won the China Industry University Research Cooperation Innovation Award (individual) and the first prize of Zhejiang Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award.