Kai-Nan An
Kai-Nan An () is a biomedical engineering researcher and academic. Personal life
An graduated from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and then moved to the United States to pursue a PhD at Lehigh University. Under the guidance of his doctoral advisor Eric P. Salathe, he completed a master's dissertation on interaction of gravity wave with shear flows in 1972 and a doctoral dissertation on fluid movement across capillary walls in 1975. An met his wife Wang Sui-ching () while living in Taipei during his mandatory military service following his university graduation. Wang, then a student in National Taiwan University's foreign literature department, was the niece of An's neighbor. An was married to Wang until her death in 2010. He later endowed a scholarship in his wife's memory to support graduates of NCKU to pursue further studies abroad. Career
An is the John and Posy Krehbiel Professor Emeritus at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. In 2022 he was elected to the Academia Sinica. References

National Cheng Kung University alumni
Lehigh University alumni
Mayo Clinic people
Members of Academia Sinica
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)