Yan Luguang

Yan Luguang (; born 6 July 1935) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a research professor and former Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and served as President of Ningbo University from 1999 to 2004. He is an academician of the CAS and The World Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Together with physicist Chen Chunxian, he led the development and construction of China's first tokamak.

Biography Yan was born on 6 July 1935 in Beijing, with his ancestral home in Dongyang, Zhejiang. In 1954, he and his older brother Yan Wuguang (严武光) together went to study in the Soviet Union.

From 1988 to 1999, Yan served as Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering. He led research in superconductivity, maglev trains, renewable energy, and electric cars. He has four older brothers, not counting three other siblings who died in infancy. The five Yan brothers all became academics, including Yan Youguang (严又光), the main designer of China's first digital computer, Yan Shuangguang (严双光), an aircraft designer, and Yan Wuguang, a professor at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics. The Yan family has been called the "little academy of science".

Yan is married to Lü Xi'en (吕锡恩), a graduate of the University of Leningrad and an associate professor at the CAS Institute of Chemistry.