Tan, Zhongchao (Canada)

Dr. Tan, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), currently serves as the Chair Professor, Vice Provost and Director for Academic Services at Eastern Institute of Technology in Ningbo, China. He was the founding Executive Director of Tsinghua-Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies, and the Associate Dean (International) of Waterloo Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was also one of the founders of the Waterloo Filtration Institute. His contribution to scholarship has been recognized by international peers, as evidenced by the popularity of his technical books in his fields of research. His single-authored textbook, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases, was downloaded 1.7+ million times globally, and another coauthored textbook was recognized as “the pop-used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals”. Tan has provided dedicated services to several international professional societies, including CSME, Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering, International Association for Green Energy, Standard Council Canada/ISO, etc. His dedication to higher education also won him multiple teaching awards. Dr. Tan received his BSc and MSc degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing in the 1990s, and PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2004.