Chen Jie (engineer)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Chen Jie (born 8 July 1965) is a Chinese engineer who is a professor and the current president of Tongji University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Chen Jie
陈杰
President of Tongji University
Incumbent
Assumed office July 2018
Preceded by	Wan Gang
Personal details
Born	(1965-07-08) 8 July 1965 (age 60) Fuqing, Fujian, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Beijing Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Control theory Control engineering
Institutions	Tongji University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	陈杰
Traditional Chinese	陳杰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Jié

Biography

Chen was born in Fuqing, Fujian, on 8 July 1965.^[1] He attended the Fuqing Experimental Primary School.^[2] He secondary studied at Fuqing No. 1 High School.^[3] He earned a bachelor's degree in 1986, a master's degree in 1996, and a doctor's degree in 2001, all from Beijing Institute of Technology.^[2]

He was a visiting scholar at California State University between 1989 and 1990, a visiting research fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993, and research fellow at the University of Birmingham from 1996 to 1997.^[2] In April 2014, he became vice president of Tongji University, rising to president in July 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Honours and awards

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)^[3]
• 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^[4]