Wushour Silamu

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Wushour Silamu is a Chinese computer scientist from the Uyghur minority. He was born on October 15, 1941, in Yining, Xinjiang, China. He is a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi and focuses on multilingual computing, especially for the Uyghur language and other minority languages in Xinjiang.

He graduated from the Physics Department of Xinjiang University in 1964. He has led several departments at Xinjiang University and is the director of the Xinjiang Multilingual Information Processing Key Laboratory.

Wushour has worked with international standards groups to encode Uyghur Arabic characters in Unicode and has proposed the Old Turkic script. In 2011, he became the first Uyghur academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He also served as a Xinjiang delegate to the 12th National People’s Congress (2013–2018).