Ye Peida (; 18 October 1915 – 16 January 2011) was a Chinese telecommunications engineer and educator. He was a founding professor of the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1955 and served as its president in the 1980s. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Technological Sciences and the Third Millennium Medal of IEEE. Early life and education Ye was born on 18 October 1915 in Xinchang, Nanhui, Shanghai, Republic of China. He studied telecommunications in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Peiyang University (now Tianjin University). In his senior year, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937 and Tianjin fell to Japanese occupation. Peiyang University evacuated to Xi'an in inland China and its students and faculty became war refugees. Ye graduated from the university in 1938. In 1940, Ye worked as a technician at the Central Broadcasting Station in Chongqing, China's wartime capital. Under the constant threat of Japanese bombing raids, he mostly worked in underground bomb shelters. In 1945, Ye passed the examination for a government scholarship for studying in the United States with the highest score. He spent the following year studying at the graduate school of Columbia University, and interned at NBC and Nortel. Career After returning to China in 1947, Ye worked as an engineer at the Central Broadcasting Station, which had moved back to Nanjing after the end of World War II, and also taught as an associated professor at the University of Nanking. When the Kuomintang government lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Ye decided to stay in mainland China. In 1950, Ye was designated by Li Qiang to help establish the Central People's Broadcasting Station in Beijing. He was appointed a professor at his alma mater Peiyang University, and was promoted in 1952 to Chair of the Department of Telecommunications of the school, by then renamed as Tianjin University. When the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (BIPT) was established in 1955, Ye became a founding professor and Chair of the Department of Radio. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, he was banished to a May Seventh Cadre School to perform manual labour. He was not fully rehabilitated until after 1978. In the 1980s, Ye