Dong Yunmei, male, Han nationality, is a native of Kunming, Yunnan Province. He graduated from Jilin University in 1956.
Dong Yunmei presided over and was founder of, the development of China's first practical advanced software language BCY and computer-related coder in the early and mid 1960s. Dong later participated in formal language theory and compiling techniques and in 1979 proposed the parameter graphics method of using computers to design quality Chinese character patter and he solved the related realization technique. Dong also proposed the multiplex-based grammar deduction method and a new kind of recursion function theory called the recursion function CFRF based on context irrelevant language.
Dong is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.