EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1985-1988
B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1978-1984
Last updated: Dec 2, 2024
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1985-1988
B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1978-1984
Partial differential equations
Fluid dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Nonlinear waves
Numerical analysis
Applied mathematics
Executive Director, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 05/2020
William M. W. Mong Professor of Mathematics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 08/2004
Professor of Mathematics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 04/2000 - 07/2004
Associate Director, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 08/1998-04/2020
Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, USA, 09/1996 - 09/2001
Associate Professor, Courant Institute, USA, 09/1993 - 08/1996
Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA, 09/1993 - 08/1994
Assistant Professor, Courant Institute, USA, 09/1990 - 08/1993
Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, USA, 09/1988 - 08/1990
Member, and Member of Academic Committee, International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) since 08/2016
Council Member at Large, Hong Kong Mathematical Society, since 05/2016
President, Hong Kong Mathematical Society, 05/2012 - 04/2016
Vice President, Hong Kong Mathematical Society, 05/2004 - 04/2012
Member, Hong Kong Mathematical Society, since 09/1998
Member, American Mathematical Society, 09/1985 - 08/2001
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 09/1985 - 08/2001
Top 1000 Scientists in Mathematicians, 2022
Qin Yuan Xun Mathematical Award, 08/2019
Distinguished Paper Award (Silver), International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians, 2017
Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education of China, 2006-2008
Morningside Gold Medalist in Mathematics, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, 12/2004
Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, 08/2002
Sloan Research Fellowship Award, 1991-1993, USA, 04/1991
Presidential Fellow, NYU, USA, 09/1993
Best Thesis Award in Mathematics 1988, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 04/1989
Member, Scientific Committee, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, since 2023
Member, Scientific Committee, Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong, 2022-2023
Vice Chair, Scientific Committee, Center of Applied Mathematical at Greater Bay Area, China, since 2020
Member, Scientific Committee, National Tianyuan Center of Mathematics, Central, China, since 2019
Member, Physical Science Panel of RGC, HKRGC, since 2018
Member, Scientific Committee, 教育部科學工程實驗室, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, since 2018
Member, Scientific Committee, National Tianyuan Center of Mathematics, Northwest, China, since 2018
Member, Committee for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, HKRGC, 16/2017-17/2018
Member, Academic Steering Committee, Tianyuan Foundation, NSFC, since 2016
Member, Review Committee, Institute of Mathematics, CAS, 2016
Member, Scientific Committee, National Tianyuan Center of Mathematics, Southeast, China, since 2015
Member, Scientific Committee, CMSA, Harvard University, USA, since 2014
Member, Scientific Committee, YMSC, Tsinghua University, China, since 2010
Chair, Scientific Committee, Annual National Summer School on PDEs, since 2003
Member, Scientific Committee, International Congress on Hyperbolic Problem, 2001-2010
Member, Scientific Committee, Morningside Center, CAS, China, since 1998
Member, Scientific Committee, International Congress for Chinese Mathematicians, since 1998
Visiting Associate Professor, CMSA, Harvard University, 10/2015 - 11/2015
Visiting Professor, Huanan Normal University, China, since 09/2017
Special Invited Professor, Northwestern University, since 09/2003
Special Invited Professor, Capital Normal University, since 05/2002
Visiting Professor of Mathematics, CUHK, Hong Kong, 09/1998 - 03/2000
Distinguished visitor, University of California, USA, 09/1999 - 10/1999
Co-Current Prof. of Math., Fudan University, 05/2000 - 05/2003
Co-Current Prof. of Math., Zhongshan University, 07/1999 - 07/2002
Member, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden, 09/1997 - 10/1997
Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, USA, 08/1995 - 08/1996
Invited Professor, University of Paris 7, Paris, 05/1996 - 07/1996
Invited Professor, ETH, Zurich, 01/1996 - 02/1996
Invited Professor, Ecole Normale Superieuse, Paris, 05/1995 - 07/1995
Invited Professor, Inst. le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Roma, 04/1994 - 05/1994
Graduated PhD students (Total: 41; 38 of which were from CUHK)
Graduated MPhil students (Total: 31; 28 of which were from CUHK)
Current PhD Students (Total: 11)
Current MPhil Students (Total: 2)
Co-Editor-In-Chief, Methods and Applications of Analysis, since 1998
Main Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Physics, since 2017
Main Associate Editor, Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences, since 2014
Editorial Board Members/Associate Editors:
SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 1996-2004
Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University, since 2006
Asian Journal of Mathematics, since 1998
Mathematical Models & Methods in Applied Sciences, since 2008
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, since 2004
Science in China, Series A, since 1998
Acta Mathematica Sinica (English Series), since 1996
Acta Mathematica Applica Sinica (English Series), since 1996
Kinetic and Related Models, since 2006
Journal of Applied Analysis and Computation, since 2002
Journal of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, 1996-2004
Journal of Partial Differential Equations, since 2000
Annals of Applied Mathematics, since 2012
Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, since 2016
Applied Mathematics Journal of Chinese Universities, Series A, since 2002
Advanced Lectures in Mathematics, since 2002
SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics, 2023-2027
Communications in Mathematical Research, since 2019
Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Series B, since 2021
Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equation, since 2022
PI, RGC General Research fund 2023/24, On Entropy-Bounded Solutions to the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations in the Presence of Vacuum, 14301023, 01/01/2024 – 31/12/2026
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2021/22, Well-Posedness of The Contact Discontinuities for the Ideal MHD, 14301421, 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2019/20, Regularity estimates of Hessian and Curvature equations, 14300819, 01/11/2019 – 31/10/2023
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2019/20, Vacuum Dynamics for the Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations, 14302819, 01/01/2020 - 30/06/2023
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2017/18, On Some Problems for Steady Compressible Euler Systems, 14300917, 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2017/18, Weak and Strong Solutions to the Primitive Equations with Full or Horizontal Viscosity but No Diffusivity, 14302917, 01/09/2017 - 28/02/2021
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2015/16, On Periodic Solutions to the One-Dimensional Compressible Euler Equations, 14305315, 01/01/2016 - 30/06/2019
PI, NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, On Mathematical Theory of the Compressible Fluid-dynamical Equations, N-CUHK443/14, 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2018
PI, RGC General Research Fund 2013/14, On Steady Compressible Transonic Flows, 404813, 01/10/2013 - 30/09/2017
PI, Focused Innovations Scheme (Scheme B), Applied Analysis and Scientific Computations, 01/02/2013 - 30/06/2017
Read moreRefereed Journal Papers (total: 178):
全国偏微分方程理论与应用研究学术会议, SYSU, Guangzhou, China, 1/2024
Yau Conference 2024 - A Conference in Celebration of Professor Shing-Tung Yau, UNIST, South Korea, 1/2024
首届数学物理与几何中的偏微分方程学术研讨会, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China, 1/2024
The 2023 Annual International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM2023), Shanghai, China, 1/2024
2023 年非线性偏微分方程研讨会, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 12/2023
Master Talk of 10th Anniversary of TSIMF, Sanya, Hainan, 12/2023
Australia-China Joint Conference on PDEs, Sydney, Australia, 12/2023Zhouping
甬江PDE 前沿论坛, Zhejiang, Ningbo, China 12/2023
非綫性偏微分方程新進展―西安2023 研讨会, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, 11/2023
边界层及相关主题数学理论研讨会, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 10/2023
Read moreWorkshop on the Recent Progress of Mathematical Theory for Fluid Mechanics, Jiangsu (online), 4/2021
ICCM 2020 Online Series of Conferences on Applied Math, Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University, China, 10/2020
Program on “Optimal Transportation Problems, PDEs and Their Applications in Image Processing”, Nanjing, China, 08/2020
Tianyuan Symposium and International Conference on Frontier Basic Theory of Fluid Computing and High-efficiency-number Methods, Xian, China, 07/2020
Analysis and Geometry Symposium and Science in China: Mathematics, Harbin, China, 01/2020
Workshop on Nonlinear PDEs and Related Topics, Singapore, 12/2019
Opening Ceremony of International Applied Mathematics Center at Greater Bay Area and Workshop on Applied Mathematics, Guangzhou, China, 12/2019
Workshop on nonlinear PDE theory and applications, Shanghai, China, 12/2019
International Conference on Partial Differential Equations in Fluids, Guangzhou, China, 11/2019
International workshop on Modeling, applied analysis and computation of fluids, Shenzhen, China, 10/2019
Read moreChairman of Scientific Committee, Annual National Summer School on PDEs and Related International Workshops, China, since 2003
Chair & Organizing Committee, International Conference on Partial Differential Equations in Fluids, Guangzhou, China, 11/2019
Organizing Committee, Quantum and Kinetic Problems: Modeling, Analysis Numerics and Applications, NUS, Singapore, 09/2019-03/2020
Programme Committee Chair, International Workshop on PDEs, CUHK, Hong Kong, 05/2019
Programme Committee Chair, IMS Workshop on PDEs, CUHK, Hong Kong, 01/2019
Scientific Committee, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Workshop, Center for Nonlinear Studies and School of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xian, China, 06/2018
Programme Committee Member, Workshop on Fractal Geometry and Related Topics, CUHK, Hong Kong, 05/2018
Programme Committee Chair, Workshop on Compressible Navier-Stokes Systems and Related Problems (I), CUHK, Hong Kong, 03/2018
Programme Committee Chair, Workshop on Compressible Navier-Stokes Systems and Related Problems (II), CUHK, Hong Kong, 03/2018
Programme Committee Chair, IMS PDE Day (I), CUHK, Hong Kong, 02/2018
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