curriculum vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, United States, 1978
M.S. (Aeronautics), Caltech, United States, 1973
B.S. (Engineering, Honors), Caltech, United States, 1973.
Professional Profile
Sept. 2018: President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2009 - 2018: President, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2006 – 2009: Assistant Director, Directorate for Math & Physical Sciences, US National Science Foundation, United States
2001 – 2006: Dean, Div. of Physical Sciences, UCLA, United States
2000 – 2001: Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Math (IPAM), UCLA, United States
1997 – 2000: Chair, Dept. of Math., UCLA, United States
1996 – 1997: Graduate Vice Chair, Dept. of Math, UCLA, United States
1986 – 2009: Professor, Dept. of Math., UCLA, United States
1983 – 1986: Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Comp. Sci., Yale University, United States
1979 – 1983: Assistant Prof, Dept. of Comp.Sci., Yale University, United States
1978 – 1979: Research Fellow, Applied Math. Dept., Caltech, United States
Awards and Recognition:
Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2016
Founding Member & Board of Directors, Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, 2015-present
Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (), 2015-present
Member, Board of Trustees, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Russia), 2015-present
Honorary Doctorate, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, November 2015
Elected Member, US National Academy of Engineering, 2014
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2014
Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2010
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Fellow and President of Executive Board, Hong Kong Institution of Science (HKIS), 2011-present
Member, United States Committee of 100, 2009-present
Southern California Chinese American Faculty Association Achievement Award, 2007
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Physical Design, April 2005
Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003
Distinguished Visitor, United College, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, 2002
Faculty/Staff Partnership Award, 3rd Annual Staff Assembly, UCLA, 2000
Professional Activities:
Chair, Nevanlinna Prize Committee for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Member, Committee on Innovation, Technology and Re- of the HK Government, 2017-present
Member, International Advisory Council, Southern University of Science and Technology (), Shenzhen, 2017-present
Member, Advisory Council, RIKEN, Japan, 2016-present
Member, International Advisory Board of Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015-present
Member, Advisory Committee on Innovation and Technology, HK Government, 2015-2017
Member, President's Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna, 2014-present
Member, External Prize Committee, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2014
Member, Global University Leaders Forum, World Economic Forum, 2013-present
Member, Technology Pioneers Selection Committee, World Economic Forum, 2014-present
Member, Selection Committee for the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, 2011-2013
Member, Board of Trustees, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2011-present
Member, President's Advisory Council, Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), 2011-present
Representative of HKUST, Association of University Presidents of China, 2009-present
Representative of HKUST, Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU), 2009-present. Chair, AEARU, 2010-2011
Representative of HKUST, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), 2009-present. Member of Steering Committee, 2015-present
Representative of HKUST, Heads of Universities Committee (HUCOM), Hong Kong, 2009-present
Board of Trustees, Institute For Pure & Applied Math, UCLA, 2009-present
Editor in Chief (with F. Bresis and M. Griebel), Numer. Math., 2002 - present
Research Record:
2nd most highly cited publication in 2016 in Computational Mathematics (Google Scholar)
H-index 90. Citations for top 5 papers: 9441, 4422, 2532, 2272, 1338 (Google Scholar, Sep 2017)
One of the world's highly cited mathematicians from 2003-2014
H-index 86. Over 641 publications. Citations for top 5 papers: 8685, 4177, 2330, 2034, 1224 (Data from Google Scholar, Jan 2017)
Best paper awards: IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004; Int'l Symposium on Physical Design 2005
Fully supported by competitive federal grants throughout career without interruption: summer salaries, graduate student and postdoc support. NSF, NIH, DOE, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, DARPA, NASA
Supervised 36 PhDs, 25 postdocs
Co-Director (with Art Toga, UCLA Neurology Dept), Center for Computational Biology, UCLA. One of first 4 NIH Roadmap National Centers, 2004-2009
Major Invited Plenary/ Named Lecture:
Plenary speaker, National SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Math) 60th Anniversary Conference, July 2012, Minneapolis
Plenary panelist, European University Association Annual Meeting, Warwick, UK, 2012
Michalik Distinguished Lectures, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2009
Ostrom Lecturer, Washington State Univ., Pullman, 2009
Rees Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Delaware, 2006
Plenary speaker: Asian Math Conf., Singapore, 2005
Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005
Plenary speaker: Joint Math Meeting, San Diego, United States, 2002
Plenary speaker: Int'l Conf. of Chinese Mathematicians, Taipei, Dec 2001.
Plenary speaker: SIAM National Meeting, San Diego, 1989.
Consulting Activities:
"Numb3rs", NBC prime time TV pilot, 2004. Main math consultant.
TechFinity, Los Angeles 2004-2006.
Chevron Research, La Habra, Los Angeles, 1998-99.
Intel, 1998-99.
MathSoft, Seattle, 1997-99.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1996-98.
ICASE, NASA Langley, 1995-97.
RIACS, NASA Ames, 1986-98.
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 1986-92.
