Long-Qing Chen

Long-Qing Chen (; born 1962) is a Chinese-American engineer.

Upon graduating from Zhejiang University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in materials science and engineering, Chen remained there for a year as an assistant instructor. Between 1983 and 1985, he attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned a Master of Science in materials science and engineering. In 1990, Chen finished a PhD in the same field at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research with Armen G. Khachaturyanat at Rutgers University. Chen joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1992, advancing to associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2002. He became a distinguished professor in 2012 and was appointed to the Donald W. Hamer Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015.

Chen is a 2008 fellow of the American Physical Society. The American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Chen an equivalent honor in 2018. Academia Europaea elected him to foreign membership in 2023. In 2025, Chen was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. Provided by Wikipedia