Jin Yilian

Jin Yilian (Chinese: 金怡濂; pinyin: Jīn Yílián; born September, 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist, and a pioneer of Chinese super-computation field.

Jin was born in Tianjin, and his ancestral hometown was Changzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of Tsinghua University in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.

In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.