Yih-Hsing Pao (Chinese: 鮑亦興; 19 January 1930 – 18 June 2013) was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer.
[2][3] During his time in Shanghai, there were frequent student-led protests supportive of democracy, and he was a member of the student government.
[2][4] He received a scholarship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to pursue graduate study in mechanics, and his father borrowed money to pay for Pao's airfare of US$600.
[2] Pao completed his master's degree and continued on to doctoral study in applied mechanics, specializing in wave propagation in solids, at Columbia University.
[5] In 2009, Pao was formally appointed a Distinguished Research Chair Professor within NTU's Institute of Applied Mechanics.