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Gang Chen is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the Department Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 2013 to 2018. He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley under the supervision of then UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. He was a faculty member at Duke University and UCLA, before joining MIT in 2001. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award, an ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, an ASME Frank Kreith Award in Energy, a Nukiyama Memorial Award by the Japan Heat Transfer Society, a World Technology Network Award in Energy, an Eringen medal from the Society of Engineering Science, the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising from MIT, a Steven Chu medal from the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering, and an American Courage Award from Asian American Advancing Justice. He serves on the board of the Asian American Scholar Forum. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of Academy Sinica, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a member of the US National Academy of Science.