Prof Tao Tang 湯濤教授

Award

Doctor of Science, honoris causa 榮譽理學博士

Year of Award

2025

Biography

Prof Tao Tang is currently the President of Nanfang College, Guangzhou. He has also served as the Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of Science at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Provost and Vice President (Academic) of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and President of Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU). Prof Tang is a pre-eminent authority in computational mathematics, and has made significant contributions to the error analysis of numerical methods for hyperbolic equations, the theory of spectral methods, adaptive algorithms for differential equations, high-precision algorithms for phase-field models, and computational fluid dynamics. He has held major leadership roles both internationally and nationally in China, including as a member of the Gauss Prize Committee of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, of the Scientific Program Committee of the 2023 International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and of the State Natural Science Award of China. 

Prof Tang has won numerous international awards, including the 1988 Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, the 2003 Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, the Ministry of Education’s 2007 First Prize of Natural Science Awards, the 2016 Second Prize of National Natural Science Awards, and he was a 2018 Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2012, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2022, and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2024. 

Prof Tang is extremely enthusiastic about mathematical education. He taught undergraduates calculus even after he became the Dean of Science at the HKBU, the Vice President of SUSTech, and the President of BNBU. In 2010, he co-founded a popular, very influential magazine called Mathematical Culture. He has also given talks to a wide audience on the beauty of mathematics, and its foundational nature in science and engineering. 

Prof Tang was awarded Doctor of Science, honoris causa.