Tang Tao (; born May 1963) is a Chinese mathematician currently serving as President of BNU-HKBU United International College. Tang is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

and American Mathematical Society.

Biography

Tang was born in May 1963 in

Shucheng County Shucheng County () is a county in the west-central part of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. It is located in the southeastern corner of the prefecture-level city of Lu'an and is its easternmost county-level division The administr ...

, Anhui to a military family. He secondary studied a
Beijing No. 9 High School
He completed his bachelor's degree in

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

in 1984 from

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

and earned his doctor's degree in mathematics from the University of Leeds in 1989. After graduation, he taught at Simon Fraser University and then obtained tenure there. In 1998, he moved to Hong Kong Baptist University, and became chair professor in 2003. He was Head o
Department of Mathematics
during 2005-2008, Director o
Graduate School
of the university from 2002-2011, Associate Vice-President of the university since 2009, and Dean of Science from 2011 to 2015. In May 2015, he was hired by the Southern University of Science and Technology as its vice-president. He was appointed Provost and VP Academic in May 2018. Tang served one term as President o
the East Asia SIAM Section
From 2008 to 2012, he served as the President of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society. Tang was the co-founding editor of a Chinese journal title

which offers lively, readable, and appealing exposition on a wide range of mathematical topics in four issues each year. Tang was also one of the authors for this journal, publishing several articles includin
Feng Kang's story
an
Yitang Zhang's story
In November 2017, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In February 2019, he has been appointed as the President of BNU-HKBU UIC.

Personal life

Tang has two sons and one daughter.

Selected works

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Awards

Leslie Fox Prize for numerical analysis
1988

2003 * Fellow,

(SIAM), 2012 *

State Natural Science Award The State Science and Technology Prizes () are the highest honors conferred by the national government of the People's Republic of China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contribut ...

, China, 2016 * Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2017 * Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Invited speaker,

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

, 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Tao 1963 births People from Lu'an Living people Peking University alumni Alumni of the University of Leeds Chinese mathematicians Academic staff of the Southern University of Science and Technology Simon Fraser University faculty Academic staff of Hong Kong Baptist University Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026