Yue Chen is a Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She took a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Tsinghua University in 2015 and a PhD in electrical engineering there in 2020, and in 2017 also completed a bachelor's degree in economics at Peking University. She was a visiting student at the California Institute of Technology from 2018 to 2019, and in 2019 was awarded the legal professional qualification certificate by the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China. Her honours include the Vice-Chancellor Early Career Professorship at CUHK, the faculty's Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award, a Stanford Bits & Watts Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Excellent PhD Thesis Award of Tsinghua University and several best-paper awards from leading international journals. She is a senior member of the IEEE and has repeatedly been listed among the world's top two per cent of scientists.
Chen's training spans electrical engineering, economics and a professional legal qualification, bringing an interdisciplinary background to engineering research; at CUHK she has been recognised for both teaching and early-career research through a teaching award and the Vice-Chancellor professorship.
Achievements
- 2017 · Completed a bachelor's degree in economics at Peking University.
- 2020 · Completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Tsinghua University.
- 2024 · Awarded CUHK's Vice-Chancellor Early Career Professorship and the faculty's Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award.