Chen Guang is Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1968, and received his MA from Tsinghua University in 1981. He received his PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 1986 for theoretical research on variational principles in Dynamics. He received the Teacher of the Year Award in 1996 for excellence in teaching in Nanyang Technological University.