| Jin Yilian | |
| Native Name: | 金怡濂 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Tianjin, Republic of China |
| Fields: | Computer |
| Workplaces: | Chinese Academy of Engineering |
| Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University |
| Awards: | Highest Science and Technology Award (2002) |
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Jin Yilian (; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of supercomputing in the country.
Jin was born in Tianjin, with his ancestral home in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of Tsinghua University in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.
In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.[1] Asteroid 100434 Jinyilian, discovered by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1996, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 February 2006 .