Dr. Chao Yang is a professor and the Director of Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. degrees in 1998 and 1993, respectively, both from Nanjing Tech University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Chemical Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1998 to 2000, and a visiting scientist at Cornell University from 2005 to 2006. He was awarded the Beijing Scholars in 2023, the Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor in 2015, the National People Plan for Science and Technology Innovation Leader in 2016, and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2010.

He won the Second Prize of China State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2023 and 2019, the Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (Hong Kong) in 2016, the Second Prize of China State Technological Invention Award in 2015, the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize from Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2014, the China Chemistry Society–BASF Youth Innovation Prize in 2013, the Asia Research Award from the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, and the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Award both in 2012, the National Award for Youth in Science and Technology and the Young Scientist Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences both in 2011, the Mao Yi-Sheng Science and Technology Award in 2010, and the Second Prize of China State Natural Science Award in 2009.

His research is mainly focused on multiphase reactor engineering, mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics and green chemical engineering, especially the numerical simulation and experimental diagnosis of multiphase flow and transport phenomena in various multiphase reactors and crystallizers such as stirred tanks, loop reactors, packed-beds, microreactors and membrane reactors. He has published 358 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and holds 165 patents and 52 computer software copyrights. He has supervised 41 Ph.D. students and 39 M.S. students. He is an Associate Editors-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering and a Section Executive Editors-in-Chief of Engineering.

1. Hanyang Mo, Yumei Yong*, Kang Yu, Wenqiang Chen, Jialin Dai, Chao Yang*, “An integrated Lattice-Boltzmann model of immiscible two-phase flow and bulk mass transfer with Marangoni effect”, Journal of Computational Physics, 2023, 481, 112037 (25 pages).

2. Yinxiang Xu, Junbo Xu*, Huizhou Liu, Chao Yang*, “Electropumping of water in nanochannels using non-uniform electric fields”, Chemical Engineering Science, 2023, 267, 118325 (12 pages).

3. Haoliang Wang, Biyu Zhang, Xiangyang Li*, Yiting Xiao, Chao Yang*, “Modeling total drag force exerted on particles in dense swarm from experimental measurements using an inline image-based method”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 431(Part 4), 133485 (12 pages).

4. Zhenzhen Wang, Jie Chen*, Xin Feng, Zai-Sha Mao, Chao Yang*, "Visual dynamical measurement of the solute-induced Marangoni effect of a growing drop with a PLIF method", Chemical Engineering Science, 2021, 233, 116401 (13 pages).

5. Haoliang Wang, Xiangyang Li*, Zai-Sha Mao, Chao Yang*, "New invasive image velocimetry applicable to dense multiphase flows and its application in solid-liquid suspensions", AIChE Journal, 2019, 65(9), e16668 (14 pages).

6. Bing Yuan, Chao Yang*, Zai-Sha Mao, Xiaolong Yin, Donald L. Koch, Heat/Mass Transfer from a Neutrally Buoyant Sphere by Mixed Natural and Forced Convection in a Simple Shear Flow, AIChE Journal, 2018, 64(7): 2816-2827.

7. Yuying Wang, Junbo Xu*, Chao Yang*, "Fluid Inhomogeneity Within Nanoslits and Deviation from Hagen-Poiseuille Flow", AIChE Journal, 2017, 63(2), 834-842.

8. Jingcai Cheng, Chao Yang*, Mo Jiang, Qian Li, Zai-Sha Mao, "Simulation of antisolvent crystallization in impinging jets with coupled multiphase flow-micromixing-PBE", Chemical Engineering Science, 2017, 171, 500-512.

9. Dang Cheng, Xin Feng, Chao Yang*, Zai-Sha Mao, "Modelling and experimental investigation of micromixing of single-feed semi-batch precipitation in a liquid-liquid stirred reactor", Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016, 293, 291-301.

10. Run Li, Jingsheng Zhang, Chao Yang*, Zai-Sha Mao, Xiaolong Yin, “Numerical Study on Steady and Transient Mass/Heat Transfer Involving a Liquid Sphere in Simple Shear Creeping Flow”, AIChE Journal, 2014, 60(1), 343-352.

11. Chao Yang and Zai-Sha Mao, “Numerical simulation of multiphase reactors with continuous liquid phase”, Academic Press (Elsevier), 2014 (320 pages).