Feng Chu (Chinese: 储凤; pinyin: Chǔ Fèng; born 1965[1]) is a Chinese-French computer scientist and operations researcher whose research applies Petri nets to combinatorial optimization problems arising in inventory control, manufacturing, and transportation.
She is a distinguished professor at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne,[2] where she is director of the AROBAS (Algorithmics, Operational Research, Bioinformatics and Statistical Learning) team within the IBISC (Computer Science, Bio-Informatics and Complex Systems) laboratory,[3] and head of the Chinese mission in the office of the president of the university.
[4] Chu graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Hefei University of Technology in China in 1986.
After coming to France for graduate study, she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies (master's degree) in 1991 in metrology, automatic control and electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, and a doctorate in 1995 in automatic control, computer science, and production management from Paul Verlaine University – Metz;[2] both institutions are now part of the University of Lorraine.
She joined the University of Évry Val d'Essonne in 2009, and was named a distinguished professor (professeur de classe exceptionnelle des universités) in 2017.