Chen Shiyi (; born 1956) is a Chinese mechanical engineer and physicist. He is the President of

South University of Science and Technology of China Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) ) is a public research university in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It changed its English name from South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC) to Sout ...

. Previously, he was the Alonzo G. Decker Jr.

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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 Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

.Shiyi Chen's homepage at The Johns Hopkins University

. Retrieved 2008-01-31. He was also the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Computational Science & Engineering,

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

Career

Chen studied

mechanics Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, ''mēkhanikḗ'', "of machines") is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects. Forces applied to objects r ...

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the na ...

(B.Sc) from January 1978 to January 1982. He did his postgraduate study (M.Sc, PhD) at

. He was a post-doctoral fellow at

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from June 1987 to February 1990. From February 1990 to December 1990, he was a research scientist at the Bartol Research Institute,

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. From May 1990 till December 1993, he was a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics,

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

. 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 2005-2011, he became Dean of Engineering at Peking University, China. From 2013-2015, he became VP for Research at Peking University. In 2015, he joined SUSTech, China, as university President. 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

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(1995) and

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(2004). He was elected to member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Shiyi 1956 births Living people Chinese expatriates in the United States Chinese mechanical engineers Colorado State University faculty Educators from Taizhou, Zhejiang Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Institute of Physics Johns Hopkins University faculty Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Peking University alumni Academic staff of Peking University Physicists from Zhejiang Zhejiang University alumni Presidents of Southern University of Science and Technology