Gang Chen is an academician of the American Academy of Engineering and was the first Chinese director of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering. According to FBI prosecution data, Chen Gang is a mainland-born naturalized U.S. citizen who now serves as director of MIT Pappalardo's Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Conversion Center.
As we all know, MIT is the most powerful polytechnic school in the United States and even in the world, Qian Xuesen once studied here, but did not withstand the pressure of academics, transferred to The California Institute of Technology, Qian Xuesen did not work as a professor at MIT, and Chen Gang not only did it, but also was very powerful, becoming the first Chinese director of MIT.
MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering is ranked first in the world, with nearly 400 professors and other faculty members, and it is no exaggeration to say that Academician Chen Gang is in charge of the world's best mechanical engineering department. Academician Chen Gang has his own scientific research group, which has more than 10 students and postdoctoral fellows.
What is even more amazing is that Professor Chen Gang has been working very hard and can come all the way from the Department of Power Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Huazhong Institute of Technology), which is also very cattle X
In 1980, he was admitted to the Department of Power Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Huazhong Institute of Technology), and in 1984 and 1987, he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in the Department of Power Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Huazhong University of Technology), and then stayed on to teach. In 1989, he was funded by the Wang Kuancheng Education Foundation to study for a doctorate at the University of California, under the supervision of Professor Tian Changlin, who was then the president of the University of California, Berkeley, and received his doctorate in 1993. Dr. Gu yingqiong saw that he was appointed the first Warrenand Towneley Rohsenow Chair Professor at MIT in 2006 and the Carl Richard Soderberg Chair Professor in 2009. He is an international leading scholar in the field of heat transfer, nanotechnology and energy research.
As the country with the richest educational resources and the highest level of scientific research in the world, the United States has gathered a large number of top scholars from all over the world, of course, a large number of whom are from China. Since the reform and opening up, millions of Chinese people have gone to the United States for further study, and many continue to stay there to engage in scientific research after completing their studies. Chen Gang is one of the best.
As Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carl Richard Soderberg Chair Professor, Gang Chen became the first Chinese head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, ranked no. 1 in the world, for more than 100 years.
Dr. Gu Yingqiong saw that although Chen Gang went to college, his English was not very good, but he spent 4 years and memorized a dictionary, and it was precisely because of this effort that he seized the precious opportunity with his advantages in English and a solid foundation in scientific research, and moved the coordinates of his life from Wuhan to the United States.
At that time, in 1988, when Professor Tian Changlin, who was already at the University of California, Berkeley, was lecturing in China, the Hong Kong Wang Kuancheng Foundation approached Professor Tian and asked him to enroll in Chinese mainland, and the foundation offered a scholarship. At that time, the Huake Teaching and Research Department recommended two young teachers for interviews, and Chen Gang was one of them. After nearly an hour of Interview in English, Mr. Tian Changlin decided on the spot to accept Chen Gang as his doctoral student. Since then, Chen has begun his overseas academic career.
He once said:
"There are many opportunities in this society, when you do a good job and seize an important opportunity in life, you have a new platform, you have a broader world, you continue to work hard, you will encounter more opportunities and better platforms." 」
There is an example that Dr. Gu Yingqiong believes can more intuitively illustrate Chen Gang's efforts.
After he had a child, Chen Gang's parents went to the United States to help them with the child. Every morning before going out, Chen Gang's mother would make two sandwiches and take two bananas for him to take with him to eat, but he often came home with a sandwich or banana that he hadn't eaten. The reason is, "The lab is too busy, and after always eating one, I forget to eat the second one."
Open his profile and you'll see dozens of achievements in the "Honors + Awards" column. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Engineering, fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, and fellow of the American Physical Society.
But unfortunately, some Chinese students reported that he was hiding his account in the country where he was being used, and the amount was as much as 10,000 US dollars!
Prosecutorial data said that since about 2013, Chen Gang's research at MIT has received more than 19 million yuan in funding from various federal agencies in the United States. From at least 2017 to 2019, Chen Gang was suspected of holding several advisory roles in entities working with his home country, failing to disclose as required in his application and receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for some of his MIT studies. Mr. Chen is also suspected of maintaining a bank account of more than $10,000 in China without disclosing in his 2018 tax return.
According to prosecutors, charges of wire fraud are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, 3 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000; allegations of misrepresentation are punishable by up to 5 years in prison, 3 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Failure to file a foreign account charge is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, 3 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
According to the Boston Globe, federal prosecutor Andrew E. Lelling said at a news conference that this is not the first case in which his office has concealed ties with China against prominent researchers. "It's not illegal to work with foreign researchers," he said. Lying is illegal. We are not specifically looking for Chinese to prosecute. We're looking for behavior, not race."
Unfortunately, his academic career is over!