Stephen Z. D. Cheng (born 1949 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-American polymer scientist and chemical engineer.
Cheng received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the East China Normal University in Shanghai in 1977.
[citation needed] Cheng received his MSc in polymer science & engineering from the Donghua University also in Shanghai in 1981.
He became a graduate student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981, and obtained his PhD degree in polymer chemistry in May 1985.
[1] Cheng became a faculty as an assistant professor of polymer science at the University of Akron in October 1987.