Wushour Silamu

Wushour Silamu or Wushour Slamu (Uyghur: ھۇشۇر ئىسلام, romanized: Hushur Islam, Ⱨuxur Islam; simplified Chinese: 吾守尔·斯拉木; traditional Chinese: 吾守爾·斯拉木; pinyin: Wúshǒu'ěr Sīlāmù; born 15 October 1941), is a Chinese computer scientist of Uyghur ethnicity.

[1] He has held positions at Xinjiang University as vice-chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering and chair of the Department of Computing and is currently director of the Xinjiang Multilingual Information Processing Key Laboratory (Chinese: 新疆多语种信息处理重点实验室; pinyin: Xīnjiāng Duōyǔchóng Xìnxī Chǔlǐ Zhòngdiǎn Shíyànshì).

Wushour is an expert member of the WG2 working group of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 subcommittee for coded character sets and has attended international meetings of the working group between 1994 and 2015.

[3] In 2011, Wushour was elected as the first Uyghur academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

[1] Wushour was elected as a Xinjiang delegate to the 12th National People's Congress which was convened from 2013 to 2018.

Wushour and Michael Everson toasting each other at a meeting of WG2 in Matsue , Japan in October 2015