Wei Shyy is an aerospace engineer who served as the 4th president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from September 2018 to October 2022.
17 Facts About Wei Shyy
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Wei Shyy is currently a professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering at HKUST.
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Wei Shyy then attended the University of Michigan and graduated in 1982 with a Master of Science in Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy, both in aerospace engineering.
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Wei Shyy served as chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 2005 to 2010.
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Wei Shyy joined HKUST in August 2010 to serve as the university provost.
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Wei Shyy served as the acting president of HKUST from February to August 2018, before he was officially appointed as the president of the university in September 2018.
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Wei Shyy travelled to the United States in 1979 to attend the University of Michigan, where he received a Master of Science in Engineering degree in aerospace engineering in 1981.
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Wei Shyy received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1982.
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Wei Shyy was employed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York from 1983 to 1988, then joined the University of Florida faculty until 2004.
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Wei Shyy was appointed the fourth President of HKUST in September 2018, succeeding Tony F Chan.
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In November 2021, Wei Shyy announced that he would depart from his position with effect from October 2022, almost a year before the end of his five-year term.
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Wei Shyy paused the ceremony for a period of silent mourning.
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Wei Shyy was one of three university heads in Hong Kong who did not express support for the imposition of the national security law, telling reporters that as it had already become law, he had "no need" to support it.
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Wei Shyy has made substantial contributions to air and space flight vehicle research and development, fluid machinery design optimization, and computational methods for complex unsteady flows.
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Wei Shyy contributed multiple articles to the World Economic Forum.
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Wei Shyy is the author or a co-author of five books and numerous journal and conference articles dealing with computational and modeling techniques involving fluid flow, biological and low Reynolds number aerodynamics, combustion and propulsion, and a broad range of topics related to aerial and space flight vehicles.
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Wei Shyy is General Editor of the Cambridge Aerospace Book Series published by the Cambridge University Press, Co-Editor-in Chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by Wiley-Blackwell.