President, Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Prof. Shiyi Chen is the president of the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, and a Chair Professor at EIT. He is a physicist, Ph.D., Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of American Physical Society (1995) and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2004).
Professor Chen graduated from Zhejiang University and Peking University. He was the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Engineering and Science and has served as the Chair of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering at Peking University, and the Vice President of Peking University. In 2015, he became the President of SUSTech.
Prof. Chen has made significant contributions in fluid dynamics. His work centers on turbulence theory and computational fluid dynamics, including scaling laws, vortex dynamics, and advanced numerical methods such as lattice Boltzmann and large-eddy simulation, with broad engineering applications.