Ian Young (academic)

Ian Young AO
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Academic
Title	Kernot Professor of Engineering
Awards	Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia Centenary Medal (2001) Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia National Medal for Education by the Vietnamese Government (2012)
Academic background
Education	BE(Hons) (1979) MEngSc (1982) PhD (1984)
Alma mater	James Cook University
Academic work
Institutions	University of Melbourne

Ian Robert Young, AO (born 17 January 1957) is an Australian academic. He is the Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He previously held the senior administrative roles of Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology (2003–2011) and Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (2011–2016).^[1]

Young's field of research is Ocean Engineering and particularly the role of wind-generated ocean waves. His work has focused on the development of global wave prediction models, extreme wind and wave conditions, tropical cyclone generated waves, nearshore sea states and the role of global winds and waves in climate change.^[2]

Young is an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia,^[3] a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, received the Centenary Medal "in recognition for his services to research" in 2000^[4] and became an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2012 for his "services to higher education and research".^[5] He was awarded the Lorenz G. Straub medal for research in Hydraulic Engineering in 1986,^[6] the National Medal for Education by the Vietnamese government in 2012 and has been ranked by Engineers Australia as one of Australia's top 100 Engineers.^[3] In 2017, he was awarded the Kevin Stark medal for excellence in Coastal and Ocean Engineering.