Yunmei Dong , born in 1936, the academician of Chinese Academy of Science, is the researcher-scientist and doctoral supervisor of Institute of Software of CAS and the professor of Jilin University.

He is one of the first researchers on computer software in China. He is mainly engaging in researches of software specification and software design, and the obtainment and reuse of formula specification. He initiated a grammar conclusion method based on reuse and a new recursive function theory (CFRF). He had won the first prize of Award for Science and Technology Progress of CAS and the second prize of the National Award Science and Technology Progress. He has instructed many graduate and doctoral candidates.