Yongsheng Chen, a current professor in the US, is working for sister of Wuhan Institute of Virology and may have cheated US IRS on income arising from transferring IP to China illegally

 by Ji Yuan

Yongsheng Chen has been working as Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University since 2009.

1.Profile with material misstatement

But the profile may have omitted important latest development and in consequence failed to reflect what the profile purported to represent, such as follows:

Yongsheng Chen was appointed to be an adjunct professor of the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering of Shenyang Jianzhu University in 2017.

Yongsheng Chen is a member of Editorial Board of ACTA HYDROBIOLOGICA SINICA.
ACTA HYDROBIOLOGICA SINICA , located in Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 7 Dongnan South Road, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, is governed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and hosted by the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology. That means Yongsheng Chen is working for Chinese Academy of Sciences,the parent company of Wuhan Institute of Virology.  Wuhan Institute of Virology is also located in Wuhan.

2.Risks of misusing technical materials which belong to Georgia Institute of Technology resulting in intellectual properties stolen to CCP

Yongsheng Chen made use of materials with mark of Georgia Institute of Technology to give lecture in Shenyang Jianzhu University in 2017.

From 2016 to 2018, he gave lectures in The State Key Laboratory of Separation Membrane and Membrane Process (a military-civil fusion) ,   Tianjin University of Technology,   Nanchang Aviation University, University of Science and Technology Beijing and Changzhou University.  Such malpractice may have transferred US military technologies to Chinese People's Liberation Army.

3.Risk of Material Misstatement in Form 1040 Individual Income Tax and Form 8938 Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets

If facts in the section 1 and 2 were omitted, it's uneasy for his employer to identify material misstatement in the tax returns including F1040 and F8938.

Fact 1：The website of the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering of Shenyang Jianzhu University stated on 13 October 2017 as follows:

"The school hired Dr. Yongsheng Chen as an adjunct professor of our school. School‘s Communist Secretary Yuhou Wu met with Dr. Yongsheng Chen, and President Tiemao Shi issued a letter of appointment. Dean of the School of Environment Guouo Feng and Vice Dean Junsheng Hu introduced the environmental field of our school to Professor Yongsheng Chen in recent years. The two sides have exchanged and discussed the research work that is of interest to both parties, and the two parties have reached an intention and preliminary plan to cooperate in research work.”

Dr Yongsheng. Chen has been engaged in the research and application of water treatment and water cycle, the migration and transformation of pollutants in the environment and their risks, sustainable renewable bioenergy and sustainable urban development for more than 20 years. In the above fields, he has undertaken a number of projects in the field of the National Natural Science Foundation of the United States, the National Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Department of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Energy, and the United States Boeing Company in this field. The research fund is funded by the total funding of more than 10 million US dollars. He is not only one of the pioneers in the field of research on the health assessment of nanomaterials in the environment, but also the microalgae life cycle cycle, the use of wastewater for microalgae cultivation and harvesting, the quality assessment of water quality required for microalgae cultivation, and the water cycle during microalgae cultivation. One of the pioneers in research on the removal of substances that inhibit the growth of microalgae in China. Dr. Yongsheng Chen has been invited for many times by the US National Natural Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Energy, the National Natural Science Foundation of Israel, the National Natural Science Foundation of Ukraine, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the French National Science Foundation. The French National Research Agency (ANR) project review expert.

Fact 2:

On the morning of May 23 , 2017 , at the joint invitation of the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering and the State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Professor Yongsheng Chen from the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology came to our school for academic exchanges, and Made a report entitled " Application of Membrane Technology in Environmental Field " . More than 50 teachers and graduate students from key laboratories, colleges of environmental chemistry, and materials colleges attended the report. The report meeting was chaired by Professor Jie Wang, Deputy Dean of the School of Environmental Chemistry.

Professor Yongsheng Chen's report takes the many challenges faced by current environmental issues as the background, and introduces many emerging technologies spawned by nanomaterials with unique properties. The research results of the research team in the preparation, characterization and performance research of special membrane materials in recent years are reported. This paper focuses on the application of special membrane materials in the environmental field, including: 1 ) the application of membrane technology in biomass harvesting, culture medium and water recycling; 2 ) the application of nanocomposite ion exchange membrane in the utilization of " ocean energy " ; 3 ) Application of nanocomposite bipolar membrane in acid-base recovery of desalinated concentrated water.

The atmosphere of the report was warm. The teachers and students and Professor Chen Yongsheng had a lively discussion on the scientific issues of preparation, characterization and performance of special membrane materials, and achieved good academic exchange results. After the meeting, Prof. Wang Jie and others conducted in-depth exchanges and sharing with Prof. Chen Yongsheng on the related work carried out in the field of membrane science in Tianjin University of Technology. Prof. Chen affirmed the work of our school in the field of membrane technology, and hoped that the two sides could work together in the future. There is more cooperation. This academic report will expand the academic horizons of teachers and students, and provide new ideas and directions for teachers and graduate students.

Fact 3 

On the afternoon of May 26, 2017, the seventh lecture of the "Energy and Environment Famous Teachers Lectures" series of activities of the School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing was successfully held in 1020 of the Mechanical and Electrical Building. Professor Chen Yongsheng of Georgia Institute of Technology gave a lecture on "Differences in Teaching between China and the United States and Talking about Teaching Culture". Some teachers of the college attended the event.
Based on his experience in teaching at Georgia Tech University for many years, Professor Chen Yongsheng introduced the differences in teaching and talent training between Chinese and American famous universities, and introduced the characteristics of different student groups, teaching systems, and teaching methods. . He described his teaching experience in the United States, shared his experience in the development of international teaching methods and ideas, and interacted and communicated with the young teachers present on hot issues of common concern. The discussion was lively and the atmosphere was hot.

As the core activity of the teacher development center of the college, "Nenghuan Famous Teachers Lecture Hall" enables young teachers to experience the demeanor of famous teachers in person through a series of activities such as demonstration classes of famous teachers, sharing of teaching insights from famous teachers, classroom observation of excellent teachers, and group teaching discussions. Undergraduate education teaching teaching mode and skills, improve the level of thinking, knowledge and teaching and education. The seventh lecture of the series of "Nenghuan Famous Teachers' Lectures" came to a successful conclusion.

Expert Profile:

Professor Chen Yongsheng is currently a professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and concurrently a professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Arizona State University. Professor Chen received his Ph.D. in environmental chemistry from Nankai University, and then stayed to teach at Nankai University. After three years, he came to the United States, where he successively engaged in research and teaching at the National Cleaner Production Center, Arizona State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He has undertaken a number of projects in this field for the National Natural Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Department of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Energy (DOE), and the United States Boeing Company in this field. The research fund is funded by the total funding of more than 10 million US dollars. His current research team has more than 30 members, including visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, master students and undergraduates.
Professor Chen's research work focuses on innovation and the intersection of disciplines. He is good at absorbing new technologies, new concepts, opening up new research fields, or injecting new vitality into traditional research directions. He is one of the pioneers in the field of research on nanomaterials for health assessment in the environment and a forerunner in the development of renewable energy from microalgae. Its research projects have obtained six invention patents so far. He has published more than 130 academic papers in many authoritative academic journals such as Environmental Science and Technology. Professor Chen's papers have been cited more than 6,800 times, and his H-Index is 44. Professor Chen has also published more than 100 research results in international and domestic academic conferences; he has been invited to give special reports or preside over conferences in international academic conferences for many times. Professor Chen's paper was awarded the best paper in 2006 by Environmental Science and Technology. Prof. Chen's honors also include the 2011 American Chemical Society Best Paper Report Award; two of the 2011 American Chemical Society Chemistry and Engineering News (C&EN) Best Excellent Papers; AEESP) Best Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award; in 2014, he won the Best Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award from Sigma Xi in the United States, etc. In 2012, he was selected into the "Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee.

Fact 4 Release time: 2018-05-25 

  

At 10:00 am on May 24, at Q204 of the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Professor Chen Yongsheng from Georgia Institute of Technology gave a report entitled "Environmental Applications Implications of Nanotechnology". The report meeting was chaired by Professor Luo Xubiao, and some teachers and postgraduate students from the School of Environmental Chemistry attended the report meeting.
Professor Chen Yongsheng first introduced the main academic research directions of the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology, which can be divided into: atmosphere, surface water, groundwater, energy and material sustainability, environmental health, and discussed the subject leaders in each direction. Introduced. Then, based on the research results of his research group in the past 15 years, Mr. Chen gave a detailed introduction from the aspects of titanium oxide photocatalytic decontamination, atmospheric desulfurization and denitrification, biomass conversion, and water separation membrane design. After the report meeting, Mr. Chen gave detailed answers to the questions of the teachers and students, and the teachers and students all benefited a lot.Contact address: School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang Aviation University, No. 696, Fenghe South Avenue, Nanchang Postal Code: 330063

Fact 5:

Publishing time: 2016-06-15 

On the afternoon of June 14, Dr. Chen Yongsheng, a tenured professor of the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and an expert of the "Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, visited our school and gave a lecture entitled "Perspectives of environmental implications" for teachers and students of our school. of nanotechnology" academic report. School of Chemical Engineering, teachers and graduate students of environmental engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering in our school participated in this academic report, which was chaired by Dean Li Zhongyu.
Professor Chen introduced the research progress of his research group in the field of health assessment of nanomaterials in the environment in recent years. He focused on the aggregation of nanoparticles, the effect of non-aggregated single nanoparticles on DNA, ion release, and reactive oxygen species generation. The safety and health effects of nanoparticles are described. At the same time, specific research methods such as dynamics and molecular biology are introduced in detail. The participants had a lively exchange and discussion with Professor Chen on related academic issues.
Dr. Yongsheng Chen is currently a tenured professor of the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and concurrently engaged in research and teaching at Arizona State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from Nankai University in 1995. After only one year of teaching there, he was promoted to associate professor. Dr. Chen came to the United States in 1998 and has taught at the National Cleaner Production Center, Arizona State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, becoming one of the very few Chinese professors who have never studied in the United States but taught in famous American universities. For more than 20 years, Dr. Chen's research has extensively and deeply involved water treatment, water pollution, water resources management, new energy and sustainable development, including research and application of water treatment and water cycle, pollutants in the environment Migration and transformation and its risks in China, sustainable renewable bioenergy and sustainable urban development, etc. In the above fields, he has undertaken a number of projects for the National Natural Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Department of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Defense (DOD), the United States The research funds of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Boeing Company of the United States in this field have totaled more than 10 million US dollars. His current research team has more than 30 members, including visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, master students and undergraduates.
Dr. Chen's research focuses on innovation and the intersection of disciplines. He is good at absorbing new technologies, new concepts, opening up new research fields, or injecting new vitality into traditional research directions. He is one of the pioneers in the field of research on nanomaterials for health assessment in the environment and a forerunner in the development of renewable energy from microalgae. Its research projects have obtained six invention patents so far.
Dr. Chen has achieved many important achievements in the field of scientific research he is engaged in. He has published more than 110 academic papers in many authoritative academic journals such as Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Chen's papers have been cited as many as 5,600 times, and his H-Index is 39. Dr. Chen has also published research results in more than 80 international and domestic academic conferences; has been invited to give special reports or presided over conferences in international academic conferences for many times; obtained 6 patents. Dr. Chen's paper was awarded the 2006 Best Paper of the Year by Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Chen's honors also include the 2011 American Chemical Society Best Paper Report Award; the 2011 American Chemical Society Chemistry and Engineering News (C&EN) two Best Excellent Papers; In 2014, he won the Best Doctoral Dissertation Mentor Award from Sigma Xi in the United States, etc. In 2012, he was selected into the "Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
Dr. Yongsheng Chen has been invited to serve as a project review expert for many institutions in the United States, Europe and China, including the National Natural Science Foundation of the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Energy, the National Natural Science Foundation of Israel, and the State of Ukraine. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.) and the French National Research Agency (The French National Research Agency (ANR)) project review experts. Dr. Chen Yongsheng has also been invited many times to serve as China Changjiang Scholars and overseas evaluation experts of the "Thousands of Young Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

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Fact 6：

The Membrane Separation Technology Collaborative Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center") was established in August 2014 and was identified as the first batch of Tianjin Collaborative Innovation Centers. The center is led by Tianjin University of Technology, in conjunction with the Tianjin Institute of Seawater Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Natural Resources , Tianjin University, the Eco-Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other top domestic membrane research institutions , Tianjin Motian Membrane Technology Co., Ltd., Guiyang Times Wharton Technology Co., Ltd., Shandong Dongyue Polymer Materials Co., Ltd. and other domestic leading and benchmarking enterprises in the membrane field, have established a stable and open organizational form of "core layer + collaboration layer" , and constructed a benefit-sharing mechanism of " project as a link, market-oriented operation " , to form a " talent- discipline - platform " trinity of industry-university-research interest community. The center implements the center director responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors, combined with Tianjin University of Technology " double first-class " discipline construction and national scientific research platform construction, has gradually become the core base for technological innovation, achievement transformation and talent training in China's membrane industry.

According to the development requirements of " dynamic, open, integrated and sustainable " , combined with the research tasks of the Collaborative Innovation Center and the effectiveness of multi-party collaboration, the center attracted China Resources Environmental Protection Development Co. , Ltd. The advantages of applied basic research in the field of separation membranes , the engineering design and development advantages of the Tianjin Seawater Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization Research Institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the production and engineering construction advantages of advanced membrane products of Tianjin Motian Membrane Technology Co. , Ltd., the advantages of China Resources Environmental Protection Development Co., Ltd. in environmental protection The influence of the whole industry chain in the field, strong complementarity, has created a membrane separation science and technology collaborative innovation center integrating applied research - engineering design - production and construction - marketing promotion .

The center focuses on major national strategies such as green development and ecological civilization construction, facing major needs in the fields of environment, chemical industry, energy, biomedicine, etc., guided by major plans such as "Made in China 2025", with high-performance separation membrane materials and green preparation technology, Separation membrane materials and key components for biomedicine, membrane technology, seawater chemistry and resource utilization, membrane integration technology and intelligent equipment are the research directions , and the development strategy of " complementary advantages , collaborative research , key breakthroughs , and overall improvement " will be implemented to give full play to the colleges and universities. The service advantages of economic system construction provide scientific and technological and talent support for the development of national environmental protection, water resources safety, and the development of strategic emerging industries such as new materials and biomedicine in Tianjin .

After 6 years of development, the coordination mechanism of the center has become more complete, the technology chain and industrial chain have become more complete, and the collaborative innovation ability has been significantly improved. The development of the center has promoted the textile science and engineering discipline of Tianjin University of Technology to enter the ranks of the national "double first-class" world-class discipline construction . Materials, chemistry and engineering disciplines related to separation membrane research entered the ESI global 1% for the first time. In 2015 , the Ministry of Science and Technology and Tianjin Municipality jointly approved the establishment of the State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Materials and Membrane Applications (Enterprise State Key Laboratory), and subsequently approved the establishment of a national-level international joint research center (2016 ), innovative talent training demonstration base ( 2017 ), separation membrane discipline innovation and intelligence base ( 2018 ) and other national platforms . In 2016 , the school established membrane technology research, established membrane industry alliance and seawater desalination alliance, incubated and supported more than 40 high-tech enterprises in the field of separation membrane and membrane process, and made important contributions to the development of membrane technology in Tianjin and the whole country.

Ji Yuan is a former Certified Public Accountant licensed by the People’s Republic of China, who audited financial statements of Chinese Communist enterprises for multiple years. 

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