Ye Peida

Ye Peida (; 18 October 1915 – 16 January 2011) was a Chinese telecommunications engineer and educator. He was a founding professor of the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1955 and served as its president in the 1980s. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Technological Sciences and the Third Millennium Medal of IEEE.

Early life and education Ye was born on 18 October 1915 in Xinchang, Nanhui, Shanghai, Republic of China. He studied telecommunications in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Peiyang University (now Tianjin University). In his senior year, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937 and Tianjin fell to Japanese occupation. Peiyang University evacuated to Xi'an in inland China and its students and faculty became war refugees. Ye graduated from the university in 1938.

In 1940, Ye worked as a technician at the Central Broadcasting Station in Chongqing, China's wartime capital. Under the constant threat of Japanese bombing raids, he mostly worked in underground bomb shelters. He was the first Chinese scientist to research microwave communication in 1956,

Ye was a pioneering educator of telecommunications in China. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, he taught more than 5,000 students and advised over 70 doctoral and master's students. Two of his books were widely used as textbooks in Chinese universities.

Honours and recognition In 1980, Ye was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1988 and an Outstanding Fellow in 1997. In 2000, he became an IEEE Life Fellow and was awarded the Third Millennium Medal of IEEE. He was elected Governor of the International Council for Computer Communications (ICCC) in 1993.

Ye received numerous national and ministerial prizes for his research, as well as the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Technological Sciences. He received an IEEE citation for "pioneering contribution to telecommunications engineering education in China" and an ICCC citation for "contributions made to international computer communication".