Introduction
Gang Chen (Chinese: 陈刚; pinyin: Chén Gāng) is Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and the former director of the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center), an Energy Frontier Research Center formerly funded by the US Department of Energy.
Education
- Bachelor and master degrees from Energy and Power Engineering Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, respectively in 1984 and 1986.
- PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, in 1993.
Researching Career
Chen was an assistant professor at Duke University, a tenured associate professor at UC Los Angeles, before moving to MIT. He is a recipient of a K.C. Wong Education Foundation fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Award
He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award, and an ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award. He is a fellow of AAAS, APS, and ASME. In 2010, he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for contributions to heat transfer at the nanoscale and to thermoelectric energy conversion technology.. He was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in the Division of Engineering Science in 2014. He was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 2018.