Distinguished Chair Professor

Professor Yuan Ya-xiang is a professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from Xiangtan University in 1981, and obtained Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1986. He was the Director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics of CAS (1995-2006), Director of State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing (1997-2005), and Vice President of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of CAS (1998-2006).

He won numerous awards, including Fox Prize (1985, London), Young Scientist Award of China (1996, Beijing), Second Prize of National Natural Science Award (2006, Beijing), S.S. Chern Award of Chinese Mathematical Society (2011), TWAS prize in mathematics (2014), and Su Buqing Prize of China SIAM (2016).

He gave a Plenary Lectures at the ICIAM 1999, and an invited lecture at the ICM-2014. He was elected as an academician of CAS in 2011, as well as Fellow of SIAM (2011), Fellow of AMS (2012), Corresponding Member of Brazilian Academy of Science (2014), and Fellow of TWAS (2015).