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Nie Zaiping

Chinese electrical engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ29387433 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nie Zaiping (Chinese: 聂在平) from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, Sichuan, China is a Chinese engineer. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society in 2013 for leadership in engineering and education in electromagnetics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nie Zaiping” as chinese electrical engineer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zaiping, Chinese and electrical.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-10. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zaiping, Chinese and electrical providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nie Zaiping”, the useful work is to connect “chinese electrical engineer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29387433. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Nie Zaiping” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.