Professor Raymond Chan, Dean of the College of Science and Professor Tong Yang, Chair Professor of the Department of Mathematics, have been elected as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) of Class 2021. In Hong Kong, there are eight AMS Fellows, three of them are from CityU, the highest amongst all local universities, suggesting the impact that our faculty members have been making in the profession.
Professor Chan is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in the US and was the first and only scholar from an Asian university elected to the SIAM Council. He has won the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis; Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing; a Morningside Silver Award; and a Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (First Prize) from the Ministry of Education in China.
Professor Yang is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and named Senior Research Fellow by the Research Grants Council; and has received the Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) of China (first prize); State Natural Science Award (2nd class) of China; a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship; Changjiang Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China in 2005; and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; and a Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics by ICCM.
AMS has been a professional society since 1888, and the AMS Fellows programme recognises members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilisation of mathematics.