Sze-Hoi Henry Tye (Chinese: 戴自海; born 1947 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist most notable for proposing that relative brane motion could cause cosmic inflation as well as his work on superstring theory, brane cosmology and elementary particle physics.
[2] He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and was the Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study during 2011-2016.
[4] A variant of this proposal based on branes and antibranes [5] was later put on concrete string theoretic grounds by Shamit Kachru and collaborators.
Apart from the details of brane inflation, he has been working on issues related to the string landscape and quantum cosmology with his collaborators.
Alan Guth, in his book The Inflationary Universe, tells the story of how he was led to think about issues that resulted in the original idea of cosmic inflation due to the influence of Henry Tye.