Chen Shiyi

Chen Shiyi (simplified Chinese: 陈十一; traditional Chinese: 陳十一; pinyin: Chén Shíyī; born 1956) is a Chinese mechanical engineer and physicist. He is the President of South University of Science and Technology of China.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Previously, he was the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Engineering and Science, the Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Professor at both Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Department of Physics and Astronomy of Johns Hopkins University.[1] He was also the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Computational Science & Engineering, Peking University.[2]

Career

Chen studied mechanics at Zhejiang University (B.Sc.) from January 1978 to January 1982. He did his postgraduate study (M.Sc., PhD) at Peking University.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory USA from June 1987 to February 1990. From February 1990 to December 1990, he was a research scientist at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware. From May 1990 till December 1993, he was a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University. From December 1990 - November 1992, he was an Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. November 1992 - September 1994, he was a research staff and group leader in the same lab. September 1994 - January 2000, he was a research staff member at the IBM Research Division. Then he started his career at the Johns Hopkins University. July 1997 - January 2000, he was also the deputy director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2005 to 2011, he became Dean of Engineering at Peking University, China. From 2013 to 2015, he became VP for Research at Peking University. In 2015, he joined SUSTech, China, as university President.[3]

Chen conducted research in lattice gas methods in which he created important analysis approaches and led engineering applications. He also made contributions to high-performance computing. He did fundamental studies in the theory of turbulence. For these reasons, he was elected as a fellow of American Physical Society (1995)[4] and Institute of Physics (2004).

He was elected to member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.[5]

References
  1. Shiyi Chen's homepage at The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2008-01-31. Archived December 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Shiyi Chen at Peking University" (in Chinese). Peking University. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. "Dr. Shiyi Chen Appointed as President of the Southern University of Science & Technology". Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  4. 1995 APS Fellows American Physical Society. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  5. "Prof. Shiyi Chen elected member of Chinese Academy of Sciences". Retrieved 2019-09-07.
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