With the approval of the Standing Committee of the Henan Institute of Electronics (HIE), the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Committee will be henceforth affiliated with Sias International University. The Dean of Sias' School of Electronics & Information Engineering, Prof. Wang Fuyuan, will assume the position of Committee Director.
The Henan Institute of Electronics (HIE) is a branch of the China Institute of Electronics (CIE), which works under the guidance of the Ministry of Information Processing, the Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI) [International Union of Radio Science], the International Confederation of Contamination Control Societies (ICCCS), and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). The CIE also oversees and publishes 12 key publications, such as the Chinese Semiconductor Journal, and the Journal of Signal Processing.