Aibing Yu

Aibing Yu (born 1963) is a Chinese–Australian chemical engineer and academic. He is currently with Great Bay University, China, as a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Smart Processing Engineering. He is also with Northeastern University as Distinguished Professor and Director of Research Institute for Particle Science and Technology; and University of New South Wales as Adjunct Professor. Prior to that, he served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (China Strategies) and Foundation President (Suzhou) at Monash University where he was also Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and Director of ARC Research Hub for Smart Process Design and BHP-Baowu-Monash Knowledge Centre for LCM.

Education Yu completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Northeastern University in 1982, followed by a Master of Engineering degree from the same institution in 1985. In 1989, he obtained a PhD from the University of Wollongong. Later, in 2007, he obtained a DSc degree from the University of New South Wales.

Yu has founded notable multidisciplinary research institutes and centers at both the national and university levels. From 2000 to 2007, he was the Inaugural Director of the UNSW Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems. He also served as the deputy director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials from 2008 to 2010 and as the Founding Director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials from 2013 to 2015. From 2016 to 2021, he directed the ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Computational Particle Technology and has been directing the ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Smart Process Design and Control since 2023. His roles on management committees and advisory boards include chairing the Technical Advisory Committee of the Baosteel-Australian Universities Joint R&D Centre since 2011. In Suzhou, he has established the Specialized Research Institute for Process Modelling and Optimization, the Monash Suzhou Research Institute, and the BHP-Baowu-Monash Knowledge Centre for Low Carbon Metallurgy. 2010 – ExxonMobil Award, Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers 2010 – NSW Scientist of the Year in Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, UNSW 2011 – Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (AAS) 2017 – Fellow, Foreign Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering 2019 – Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2020 – Friendship Award of Lushan, Jiangxi Province 2020 – International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, Jiangsu Province