About

Qingyan (Yan) Chen is a James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and the Editor-in-Chief of Building and Environment. Chen earned his B.Eng. in 1983 from Tsinghua University, M.Eng. in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He conducted his post-doctoral research as a Research Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) and worked as a Project Manager for TNO in the Netherlands. He has published three books, over 470 journal and conference papers, and has been invited to deliver more than 170 lectures internationally.