Recently,Zhangxing Chen, University Chair Professor at Ningbo EasternInstitute of Technology, Member of the U.S. National Academy ofEngineering, and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy ofEngineering, was awarded the "Outstanding Scientist Award",one of the three annual "Science and Technology Awards"presented by the Chinese Professionals and Scholars Association inAmerica (CPSA) in 2025.
Atthe 2025 Global Sci-Tech Innovation Summit and the grand celebrationof the 33rd anniversary of the CPSA, he shared this honor with BrianKobilka, Nobel laureate in Chemistry and Member of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences.
This year's three "Science and Technology Awards" were presentedto three internationally renowned leaders in sci-tech innovation.Chen Zhangxing and Brian Kobilka were jointly conferred the"Outstanding Scientist Award". Yu Jianhua, Member of theNational Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Professor at the School ofMedicine of the University of California, received the "OutstandingSci-Tech Innovation Award".
It is worth noting that Yau Shing-Tung, the first ethnic Chineserecipient of the Fields Medal and a Foreign Member of the ChineseAcademy of Sciences, previously won the CPSA "OutstandingScientist Award" in 2018.
Photocaptions: Zhangxing Chen (center) receives the "OutstandingScientist Award", one of the three annual CPSA "Science andTechnology Awards" for 2025.
Photo provided by the organizers. /The "Outstanding Scientist Award" certificate. Photoprovided by the organizers.
Zhangxing Chen joined Ningbo Eastern Institute of Technology full-time in2023. His research mainly concerns reservoir engineering andnumerical simulation. He is an internationally renowned scientist inthe fields of computational mathematics, unconventional oil and gas,and petroleum engineering, and has carried out a large body ofpioneering work in flow mechanics in porous media, new enhanced oilrecovery processes, the theory and methods of reservoir numericalsimulation, visualization technology, and the key technologies forhydrogen production as well as the research, transfer and applicationof CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage), producing a seriesof innovative achievements with global impact.
Zhangxing Chen has also received numerous other honors and awards,including the Chinese Government Friendship Award, Canada's highestscience and technology award, the "Fields Medal of IndustrialMathematics" in Canada, the U.S. President Ford Award, and theTechnical Achievement Award of the World Petroleum Council.
The CPSA Awards were established in 2015 by the Chinese Professionals andScholars Association in America. Their purpose is to set exemplarymodels of success among Chinese scientists and entrepreneurs in NorthAmerica, to highlight the outstanding contributions and achievementsof the new generation of Chinese overseas, to encourage and inspirescholars studying abroad to work for the benefit of humanity, and topromote the solidarity and cooperation of Chinese scholars. Theawards comprise three categories: the Outstanding Scientist Award,the Outstanding Sci-Tech Innovation Award, and the OutstandingSci-Tech Entrepreneur Award.