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Tang Tao
汤涛
President of United International College
Assumed office
February 2019
Preceded byNg Ching-fai
Personal details
BornMay 1963 (age 60–61)
Shucheng County, Anhui, China
Children3
Alma materPeking University
University of Leeds
Scientific career
FieldsComputational mathematics
InstitutionsChinese Academy of Sciences

Tang Tao (simplified Chinese: 汤涛; traditional Chinese: 湯濤; pinyin: Tāng Tāo; 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,[1] Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences,[2] Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS).[2] He is also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and American Mathematical Society.[3]

Biography[edit]

Tang was born in May 1963 in Shucheng County, Anhui to a military family. He secondary studied at Beijing No. 9 High School. He completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1984 from Peking University 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 of Department of Mathematics during 2005–2008, Director of Graduate School of the university from 2002 to 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.[4][5][3] He was appointed Provost and VP Academic in May 2018.

Tang served one term as President of 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 titled "Mathematical Culture", 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 including Feng Kang's story and Yitang Zhang's story.

In November 2017, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[6]

In February 2019, he has been appointed as the President of BNU-HKBU UIC.

Personal life[edit]

Tang has two sons and one daughter.[4]

Selected works[edit]

Awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 中国科学院院士汤涛简介. cms.org.cn (in Chinese). 2017-12-02.
  2. ^ a b "Senior Management-Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College".
  3. ^ a b Wang Ziyi; Luo Heng Yuan (28 November 2017). "SUSTech Vice President Tang Tao elected as CAS academician". sustc.edu.cn. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b 南科大副校长汤涛当选中科院院士，30年来他只做了一件事. oeeee.com (in Chinese). 2017-12-01.
  5. ^ Xiang Yuhang; Zhu Hongbo (2017-11-28). 研究计算数学40年，南科大副校长汤涛当选中国科学院院士. southcn.com (in Chinese).
  6. ^ 关于公布2017年中国科学院院士增选当选院士名单的公告. CAS (in Chinese). 2017-11-28.
  7. ^ SIAM names 2012 Fellows. CAS.
  8. ^ Class of Fellows of the AMS (PDF). CAS.
  9. ^ "Prof. Tao Tang". Division of Science and Technology, United International College.
Educational offices
New title Dean of Graduate School and Vice-President of Southern University of Science and Technology
2015–2018 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Wu Chuanyue (吴传跃)
 Director of Education and Vice-President of Southern University of Science and Technology
2018–2019 		Succeeded by
Zhang Dongxiao (张东晓)
Preceded by President of United International College
2019 		Incumbent
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Tao

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