Q. Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088, USA
Dr Qingyan (Yan) Chen is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University and a Principal Director of the National Air Transportation
Center of Excellence for Research in the Intermodal Transport Environment (RITE), a center consisting of seven universities sponsored
mainly by the Federal Aviation Administration. He also serves as the fifth Editor-in-Chief of Building and Environment, the international
journal of building science and its application, published by Elsevier since 1965.
Dr Chen earned his B.Eng. in 1983 from Tsinghua
University and M.Eng. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He conducted his post-doctoral research
as a Research Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) and worked as a Project Manager for TNO in the Netherlands.
Before he joined Purdue University, he was a faculty member at TU Delft and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr Chen has many
other parallel appointments in his career, such as Otto Monsted Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Professorial
Fellow at the Cardiff University in the UK, Changjiang Chair Professor at the Tianjin University in China, part-time professor at the
Harbin Institute of Technology in China, Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Visiting Professor at the Helsinki University
of Technology in Finland, Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China, and Guest Professor at the Southeast University and Dalian
University of Technology in China. In addition, he has co-supervised Ph.D. students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the
Netherlands, the University of Cagliari in Italy, and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Chen is also a Director and
Partner of the Boston International Design Group, an architectural design firm, and a Partner of Building Energy and Environment Engineering
LLP, a consulting company.
Dr Chen has been working in the thermo-fluid aspect of mechanical engineering. He is actively involved
in the fundamental research in turbulent flow and heat transfer and its applications in the HVAC industry. Dr. Chen's current research
topics include indoor environment, aircraft cabin environment, and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis.
He has published two books and over 200 journal and conference papers, and has been invited to deliver more than 80 lectures internationally.
In recent years, Chen has received several technical paper and poster awards and Distinguished and Exceptional Service Awards from
the ASHRAE. He is a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in the United States. Dr Chen has also received
the Willis J. Whitfield Award "for significant contributions to the field of contamination control through numerous published papers,
studies, and reports" from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. He is a fellow of the ASHRAE and the International
Society of Indoor Air Quality. Before he became the Editor-in-Chief of the Building and Environment journal, he served as an associate
editor of the HVAC&R Research journal and was a member on the editorial boards of six other journals. Dr Chen's homepage is at  https://engineering.purdue.edu/~yanchen/
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