Zhang Youqi

Zhang Youqi (; 18 September 1934 – 23 September 2022) was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at South China University of Technology, a former vice president of the University of Hong Kong, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Zhang was born in British Hong Kong, on 18 September 1934, while his ancestral home in Xinhui District of Jiangmen, Guangdong. He attended the Queen's College, Hong Kong.

Honours and awards 1987 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1990 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for the development and application of the finite strip method 1995 British Empire Medal (ODE) 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 1999 State Natural Science Award (Third Class) for the incremental harmonic balance method and generalized perturbation methods for strongly non-linear vibration 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2003 Silver Bauhinia Star 2003 Myklestad Prize by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)