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Biography

Yang You, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jurong, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Glasgow University.

Yang spent his career as a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He has supervised and designed several models of ships, including the "Yingzhou" patrol boat, a 15,000t self-unloading coal transport vessel, a 5,000t offshore dry cargo ship and a 15,000t economical ocean dry cargo ship. Yang directed the formulation of the first "ship stability norm" in China.

In the 1960s, he supervised graduate student research for passive shake reduction water tanks, the results of which were widely adopted by design and research organizations. By the mid 1970s, he began to research the technical and economic argumentation of seawater transport and ocean engineering systems, promoting the development of the science in China.

Yang also took the lead in initiating the development of computer integration system for design of ocean cargo ship. He directed the compilation of the "main yardstick analysis program" and "model line design program" and contributed significantly to the development of computer aid design of shipbuilding science and technology in China.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.