Background
Cao Jianyou was born in Changsha, Hunan Province.
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Cao Jianyou was born in Changsha, Hunan Province.
He was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1936. After graduation in 1940, he joined the School of Engineering of Southwest Associated University as a faculty member. In 1945 he went to the United States. to further his study, and got his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 with his graduation paper Betatron characteristics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synchrotron.
He joined City College of New York after graduation, as a guest lecturer.
After returning to China in 1951, He joined Department of Electrical Engineering of Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University), where he became the dean of department later. In 1978, he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of Southwest Jiaotong University.
Chinese Academy of Sciences]
In 1980, he was elected to be a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.