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Henry T. Yang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed in 1994, he is the fifth chancellor of the university. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had held the post of Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. He had also held the post of dean of engineering at Purdue. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He obtained his B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1962. He has been granted a doctorate degree in Structural Engineering from Cornell University, as well as honorary doctorates from Purdue University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and National Taiwan University. He has received the Benjamin Garver Lamme gold medal, from the American Society for Engineering Education. He has served on the Defense Science Board and on other scientific advisory boards for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a founding member of the Steering Committee, Association of Pacific Rim Universities. He is a director of American Axle & Manufacturing.^[1] Chancellor Yang is a champion of ethnic diversity in the science and engineering disciplines, and serves the state of California as the Principal Investigator/Senior Scientist for Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement.

Dr. Yang specializes in aerospace structures, structural dynamics, composite materials, finite elements, transonic aeroelasticity, wind and earthquake structural engineering, and manufacturing. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 articles for scientific journals, as well as a widely used textbook on finite element structural analysis. In spite of the demands of the Chancellor position, he teaches a mechanical engineering course every year which keeps him connected with undergraduate students at UCSB.

In 1999, he established a campus task force to develop and recommend alcohol policy changes on campus, and a campus and community coalition to address student alcohol use in the community.