Dr. Yao ZHENG is a Cheung Kong chair professor with Zhejiang University, appointed by the Ministry of Education of China since 2001. He has been the director of Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation (2002-), the founding deputy dean of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2007-2013), and the vice dean of Faculty of Engineering (2014-2019), all in Zhejiang University, China, and the director of Zhejiang Institute of Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems (2019-), China.

He earned a BSc in Mathematics from Hangzhou University, China, in 1984, an MSc (Eng) in Mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1986, and a PhD in Computational Modeling from University of Wales Swansea (UWS, currently Swansea University), UK, in 1995. Prior to joining UWS in 1989 under a joint doctorate program, he pursued doctorate study in Civil Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, for two and a half years.

He had been a Senior Research Scientist for NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from 1998 to 2002. Prior to moving to NASA, he had been a Senior Software Scientist with CD-adapco (currently a subsidiary of Siemens), New York from 1997 to 1998; and a PhD candidate and a Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, UK for eight years. He left NASA Glenn Research Center for Zhejiang University in March, 2002.

His research has spanned flight vehicle design, aerospace propulsion theory and engineering, and computational mechanics and engineering. He has authored or co-authored five books, three translation books, and over 400 papers.

He was invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the WCCM/APCOM 2016 (Seoul, Korea), and a semi-plenary lecture at the WCCM/APCOM 2010 (Sydney, Australia). His awards include Finalist of ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2023), Best HPC Application (CCF HPC China) (2023), a First Prize of Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Province (2020), the Qian Ling-Xi Achievement Awards for Computational Mechanics (2018), a First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Zhejiang Province (2016), ICACM (International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics) Congress Award (2016), the Du Qing-Hua Award of Computational Method in Engineering (2015), the APACM (Asian-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics) Computational Mechanics Award (2013), and the NASA Tech Briefs Award and Software Release Award (2004).

He serves as one of Editors-in-Chief (2022-) of Aerospace Research Communications (ARC), an Associate Editor (2020-) of Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics (in Chinese), an Associate Editor (2007-2022) of Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, and an Associate Editor (2006-2012) of Communications in Computational Physics.

He serves as one of Series Editors (2020-), Springer Aerospace Technology, Book Series, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, an Editor-in-Chief (2019-), Textbook Series in Aeronautics and Astronautics (in Chinese), Science Press, Shanghai, China, an Editor-in-Chief (2019-), Fundamental Research Sub-series (in Chinese or English), Publishing Project of Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems, Zhejiang University Press, and an Editor-in-Chief (2012-2021), Chinese Translation Book Series of Hypersonic Technologies (10 books), China Aviation Publishing & Media Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.

He serves as a member of the General Council (2004-) of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM); a member of the General Council (2004-2013) and the Executive Council (2013-2025), and the President (2022-2025) of the Asian-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM); and the President of International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics (ICACM) (2016-). He had been a Vice President (2005-2020) of the Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics (CACM).

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