Charles Yang Chun's Biography

Charles Yang Chun, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Chun YANG obtained his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Thermal Engineering at Tsinghua University, Master’s degree in Engineering Thermophysics from University of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alberta.
Prior to joining Nanyang Technological University in 1999, he had been with Syncrude Canada Ltd. - Edmonton Research Centre under NSERC Chair Programme in Oil Sands for three years.
In 2005 he became an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is the author and coauthor of more than 140 publications in referred international journals with SCI citations more than 3100 and H-index of 30.
He has six US patents in his name and has co-authored one text book entitled “Elementary Electrokinetic Flow” and 20 book chapters. He sits in several editorial advisory boards including, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinary Fluid Sciences, American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science and Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-ASIA. His current research interests are: micro/nano–fluidics, electrokinetic transport phenomena, surface and colloidal science, and microscale flow, heat & mass transfer.