Gang Chen

Gang Chen is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. At MIT, he is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and he was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from July 23, 2013 to June 30, 2018. He directed the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center formerly funded by the US Department of Energy. Chen is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In January 2021, Chen was charged by the United States Department of Justice with failing to disclose alleged connections to several educational programs in China in filing a United States Department of Energy grant application, as well as omissions in his Internal Revenue Service tax filings.