About Gengdong Cheng’s work
From November 1994 to January 1995 and from November to December 1995, Gengdong Cheng held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Cheng was based at Dalian University of Technology.
Biography
Cheng Gengdong, an engineering mechanic, graduated from the Department of Mathematical Mechanics of Peking University in 1964, graduated from Dalian Institute of Technology in 1968, and received a doctorate degree from the Technical University of Denmark in 1980. From 1985 to 95, he served as Vice President of Dalian University of Technology, and became President in 1995. At the same year, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cheng has been committed to the teaching and research of computational mechanics and engineering mechanics, has systematic and in-depth research on the basic theory of structural optimization, and has completed a number of important theoretical works, and his results are recognized as having foundational significance for the rapid development of structural topology design homogenization methods, and play a key role in the development of modern layout theory. Cheng Gengdong also served as a deputy to the National People's Congress.