Prof. Jien-Wei YehTaiwan
National Tsing Hua University
| 2024 to present | | Academician, Academia Sinica |
| 2024/08 to present | | Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 2024/08 to present | | Consultant of High-Entropy Materials Center |
| 1980 - 1986 | | PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 1976 - 1980 | | MS in Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 1972 - 1976 | | BS in Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 2022/08 - 2024/07 | | Chair professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 2017/08 - 2022/07 | | Distinguished professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 1994/08 - 2017/07 | | Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 1986/08 - 1994/07 | | Associate professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University |
| 2025 | | Presidential Science Prize |
| 2024 | | Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| 2021 | | The Executive Yuan Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Contribution |
High-Entropy Alloys and Related Materials, Aluminum Alloys, Magnesium Alloys and Metal Matrix Composites, Coating Technology, Manufacturing Engineering
Professor Jien-Wei Yeh explored and researched high-entropy alloys and related materials since 1995. He published more than 320 SCI papers, including 260 papers on high-entropy materials. He named and defined high-entropy alloys, proposed four core effects and established fundamental principles of high-entropy alloys. He used casting, wrought, powder metallurgy and coating routes to show the feasibility, promising properties and potential applications of high-entropy alloys. He also extended the high entropy concept to ceramics and polymers and advocated high-entropy materials; He is the chair of International High Entropy Materials Consortium. From the 2025 annual report by Stanford University, his scientific influence in 2024 ranks world’s second in the field of Materials. He also has 50 patents on traditional materials and high-entropy materials, and further transferred at least 10 patents to related industry for producing alloys with excellent properties.