中国民航大学理学院院长，教授。上海科技大学数学系博士，南京大学数学系博士后。天津市计算数学会常务理事。计算数学专业硕士生导师。主要研究方向为“偏微分方程数值解”。2000年10月至2001年9月，在美国Bowling Green State 大学数学与统计系做访问学者。一直在本科数学教学一线，曾被评为天津市优秀教师。主持完成天津市高校科研项目1项，在国内外重要学术刊物发表论文近30篇，SCI收录5篇，在研民航总局科研项目1项。
代表性论文如下：
[1] Songnian He and Benyu Guo, Chebyshev spectral-finite element method for three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equation, Applied Math. and Computation, Vol.82，No.2?3(1997) , 97-127.(SCI: WJ086)
[2] Songnian He and Caiping Yang, Combined Legendre spectral-finite element method for the two-dimensional unsteady Navier- Stokes equation, J. of Computational Math., Vol.17, No.5(1999), 495-508. (SCI: 239ME)
[3] So-Hsiang Chou and Songnian He, On the regularity and uniformness conditions on quadrilateral grids, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, 191（2002），5149-5158。(SCI: 613XV)
[4] So-Hsiang Chou and Songnian He，Conservative Flux Recovery from the Q1 Conforming Finite Element Method on Quadrilateral Grids, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 20 (2004), 104-127. (SCI: 753DT)
[5] Benyu Guo and Songnian He, Chebyshev spectral-finite element method for two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equation， J. of Computational Math. 20（2002）, 65-78. (SCI: 515EZ)
