He Yaling

He Yaling, female, was born in Xi’an,Shannxi Province in 1963. In 1988 she was graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Presently she is a professor and Ph.D. advisor of Xi’an Jiaotong University. She is the specialist won the special subsidy of the central government, ChangJiang scholar of the Ministry of Education, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, winner of the 100National Outstanding Doctorial Dissertation, and National Outstanding Teacher. She won the second award of the National Prize of Innovation in 2009(1st awardee) and the second award of National Prize of Natural Science in 2004 (2nd awardee). The research group led by her won the title of Innovative Group of MOE in 2008.
Presently Prof. He is the vicechairman of the National Committee of Advising Teaching Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer of MOE, member of the Chinese Association of Engineering Thermophysics and vice director of its Thermodynamics Division, and the vice president of Commission B1 of International Institute of Refrigeration. She is the regional associate editor for Asia of Applied Thermal Engineering, and guest editor of Progress in Computational Dynamics. She serves as the member of Editorial Board for 2 International Journals.
In the aspect of scientific research, she has studied in the field of engineering thermodynamics and efficient usage of energy, heat transfer and numerical simulation for years and obtained a number of innovative achievements. She is the principle investigator for more than 30 important projects, including National Key Research Project of R/D (“973”), Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Project of MOE, research project of National Defense Weapon,and JointResearch projects between China-USA and China-Japan. She has published more than 350 technical papers, including more than 160 international journal articles, more than 100 international conference papers, among which more than 150 were cited by SCI, more than 300 cited by EI. She has also published more than 10 textbooks. She has been authorized 15 national invention patents, and has received more than 20 software copyrights.
While actively conducting scientific research, Professor He has long been undertaking teaching task for both undergraduates and graduates. She has performed various educational reformation, actively written textbooks and seriously paid attention on the student behavior. The textbook on thermodynamics written by her has been widely adopted in China. She received following teaching prizes: 2 National Excellent Teaching Awards of First Class, 2 National Excellent Teaching Awards of Second Class, 4 Provincial Teaching Awards of Top Grade, 2 Provincial Teaching Awards of First Class. She received the title of the Top Grade Award of National Outstanding Teacher of Baogang Educational Foundation in 2003 and the National Model Teacher in 2004. She independently advises more than 80 graduate students.