Prof. Dr. Gang Chen

2025: Foreign member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2025: Honorary doctor of science, Hong Kong University

2025: Special Issue JHMT: Celebration Professor Gang Chen's 60th Birthday

2024: American Courage Award by Asian American Advancing Justice

2024: Beacon Award, Chinese-American Professors’ Association – Connecticut (CAPA-CT)

2024: Steven Chu Medal, Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

2023: Member, National Academy of Sciences

2022: Physics World Top 10 Breakthrough of the Year: c-BAs as the Best Semiconductor

2019: ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award

2018: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2018: Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University

2017: C2C Award (Committed to Caring), MIT ODGE

2016: Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science

2015: World Technology Award in Energy

2014: Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2014: Batteries that Capture Low-Grade Waste Heat named by Scientific America Magazine as one of 10 World Changing Ideas

2014: Nukiyama Memorial Award, Heat Transfer Society of Japan

2014: Outstanding Alumni Award, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2013: 75th Anniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division

2012: Directional Solvent Extraction Technology Named by Scientific America Magazine as one of 10 World Changing Ideas

2012: Fellow, American Physical Society

2011: Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising, MIT School of Engineering

2010: Member, National Academy of Engineering

2008: ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, Science Category

2002: Guggenheim Fellowship