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Academician Yih-Hsing Pao's Personal Profiles

Prof. Yih-Hsing Pao was born in Nanking, China in 1930. After enrolling at National Chiao-Tung University in Shanghai for two years, he transferred to National Taiwan University and received a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering in 1952. In 1953, he received a teaching assistantship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and pursued graduate study in the United States of America, earning a Master's Degree in mechanics in 1955, and a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Columbia University in 1959. From 1958 to 2000, he was a faculty member of Cornell University, rising from the rank of assistant professor to professor, chairman of the department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and endowed chair professor. In 2000, he retired formally from Cornell University and was elected to chair professor emeritus.

In 1984, he returned to Taiwan at the invitation of Central Government through an interuniversity loan program to fund and direct the Institute of Applied Mechanics at National Taiwan University for two years. He was reappointed as the director of the Institute from 1989 to 1994, and professor until his retirement in 1998, and continued to do research in the Institute as emeritus professor at NTU. Since 2003, he has also been a professor of academician rank in the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Zhejiang University.