Gang Chen (engineer)

Gang Chen
Gang Chen
陈刚
Born	June 1964 (age 59); Nanzhang, Hubei, China
Citizenship	United States (2000–present); China (1964–2000);
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (PhD); Huazhong University of Science and Technology (BE, ME);
Known for	Nanotechnology; Thermoelectricity; Nanoscale heat transfer
Spouse	Cai Guohong (蔡国红)
Children	2
Awards	American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow; Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher; Tsinghua University honorary professor; World Technology Award; Academia Sinica academician; American Physical Society fellow; University of California, Berkeley Springer Professor; National Academy of Engineering member; American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carl Richard Soderberg Professor; American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Memorial Award; American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow;
	Scientific career
Fields	Nanotechnology; Heat transfer
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001–present); University of California, Los Angeles (1996–2001); Duke University (1993–1997);
Thesis	Microscale thermal phenomena in optical and optoelectronic thin-film devices (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Chang-lin Tien
Doctoral students	Zhiting Tian
Website	meche.mit.edu/gchen2

Gang Chen (Chinese: 陈刚; pinyin: Chén Gāng) is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he is currently the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. He served as head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from July 2013 to June 2018. He directs the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an energy frontier research center formerly funded by the United States Department of Energy. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 and of the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

In January 2021, Chen was charged by the United States Department of Justice under the now abolished China Initiative, for allegedly failing to disclose connections to several Chinese educational programs when submitting a federal grant application. His arrest prompted protests by other academics including MIT's then president Leo Rafael Reif and editorials in the scientific press over the United States government targeting of Chinese American professors. One year later, federal prosecutors dropped the charges after evidence showed that the disclosures in question were not actually required by the federal government.

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