Professor Wei Shyy joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Provost and Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering on August 23, 2010.

Prof Shyy obtained his BS degree from Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan in 1977, and his MSE and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He was Research Scientist at the General Electric Research and Development Center in New York from 1983 to 1988. From 1988 to 2004, he was on the faculty of the University of Florida, where he last held the position of Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. In 2005, he joined his alma mater, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as Clarence L. Kelly Johnson Collegiate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

He is the author or a co-author of four books and numerous journal and conference articles dealing with computational and modeling techniques involving fluid flow, interfacial dynamics, multiphase and moving boundary problems, biological and low Reynolds number flight vehicles and  aerodynamics, combustion and propulsion, fluid machinery, design  optimization, materials processing, and biofluid dynamics. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Aerospace Book Series published by the Cambridge University Press, Co-Editor-in Chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by Wiley-Blackwell. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Acta Mechanica Sinica, Associate Editor of Communications in Computational Physics, as well as on the editorial boards of Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Numerical Heat Transfer (Part A: Applications, and Part B: Fundamentals), Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, and Transactions of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Prof Shyy is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has received awards for his research and professional contributions, including the AIAA 2003 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Memorial Award, and The Engineers Council (Sherman Oaks, CA) 2009 Distinguished Educator Award. He is a guest professor of several universities in China and Japan. He has also served on a number of national and international committees to review the performance and productivity of research, funding agencies, and higher educational institutes. His professional views have been quoted in various news media, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, the USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Orlando Sentinel, the Science Daily, the Yahoo-Live Science, the Austrian Public Radio, and the US News & World Report.

Prof Shyy has supervised more than 40 PhD students and mentored a large number of postdoctoral fellows.