Qingyan Chen
Qingyan (Yan) Chen is a professor of mechanical engineering, active in the field of building science. He holds the titles of Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in the United States and Changjiang Chair Professor at Tianjin University in China. He is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Building and Environment.

Biography 
Chen earned a Bachelor of Engineering in 1983 from Tsinghua University in China, and a Master's (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Purdue University, where he is currently a professor of mechanical engineering, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the ETH Zurich; worked as a project manager for the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research; and was on the faculty at Delft University of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chen's research interests include indoor environments; aircraft cabin environments; and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis.

In 1996, Chen received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, given to outstanding junior faculty. In 2007, the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology honoured him with the Willis J. Whitfield Award "for significant contributions to the field of contamination control through numerous published papers, studies, and reports". In 2013, Chen earned the Award for Distinguished Service to Building Simulation from the International Building Performance Simulation Association.