SHEN Zhiyun, born on May 28, 1929 in Changsha, Hunan Province, is a specialist of dynamics study of railway vehicle, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His previous positions include deputy director of Heavy Load Committee of China Railway Society, council member of China Railway Society and chairman of Chengdu Association for Science and Technology. He is a winner of Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award and first-class State Scientific and Technological Progress Award.

In 1952, Shen graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Tangshan Railway Institute (currently Southwest Jiaotong University). Now he serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at SWJTU. In 1961, he obtained a Candidate of Technical Sciences from Leningrad Institute of Transport Engineers (Soviet Union). In 1991, he was appointed as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the Academic Divisions of CAS). In 1994, He was appointed as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Shen has been dedicated to the teaching and study of vehicle system dynamics and control. He has made significant contributions to the high-speed railway, heavy haulage, new and high technologies and railway higher education of China.