Hongkai Zhao is a Chinese mathematician and Ruth F. DeVarney Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

. He is known for his work in scientific computing, imaging and numerical analysis, such as the fast sweeping method for Hamilton-Jacobi equation and numerical methods for moving interface problems. Zhao had obtained his

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

degree in the

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemati ...

from the Peking University in 1990 and two years later got his Master's in the same field from the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

. From 1992 to 1996 he attended

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

where he got his Ph.D. in mathematics. From 1996 to 1998 Zhao was a

Gábor Szegő Gábor Szegő () (January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was one of the foremost mathematical analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and ...

Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Stanford University and then got promoted to Research Associate which he kept till 1999. He has been at the

since. At the same time he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Computer Science of UCI. From 2010 to 2013 and 2016 to 2019, Zhao was the chairman of the Department of Mathematics and since 2016 serves as Chancellor's Professor of mathematics. Hongkai Zhao receive
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
in 2002 and the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in 2007. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of

SIAM Fellow The SIAM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognizes outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The goal of the program is to: *honor SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished ...

s, "for seminal contributions to scientific computation, numerical analysis, and applications in science and engineering". When it comes to free time he likes to watch and play sports games.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhao, Hongkai 20th-century births Living people Chinese mathematicians Peking University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Southern California alumni University of California, Irvine faculty Duke University faculty Chinese emigrants to the United States Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics