Short Bio:
Professor YANG Wei was born on February 16, 1954, in Beijing, China. He
completed his undergraduate study at Northwestern Polytechnic University in
December 1976, received his MS degree from Department of Engineering Mechanics,
Tsinghua University in April 1981, and Ph.D. degree from Division of Engineering,
Brown University, USA, in June 1985. He was promoted to the rank of full professor
in December 1989, as the youngest professor in Tsinghua University then.
In December 1993, Professor Yang was appointed as the Director of the Failure
Mechanics Laboratory of the Ministry of Education in China. He served as the
Department Head of Engineering Mechanics from 1997 to 2004, and the Executive
Dean of Aerospace School from May to September of 2004 at Tsinghua University.
From 1999 to 2004, he was endowed as a Yangtze Professor of the Chinese Ministry
of Education. He chaired the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University from April
2004 to August 2006. From September 2004 to July 2006, he served as the
Director-General of the Academic Degrees Committee of State Council of China, and
also as the Head of Directorate of Graduate Education in the Ministry of Education in
China. From August 2006 to February 2013, he took the position of the President of
Zhejiang University. Since February 2013, he has been app
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