RCSV Management Committee Member conferred American Mathematical Society Fellowship 2023

Prof. CHEN Xiaojun, Management Committee Member of the Research Centre for SHARP Vision (RCSV), was elected to the 2023 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in recognition of her contributions to mathematical optimisation, stochastic variational inequalities and the analysis of non-differentiable functions.

Prof. Chen has a distinguished track record in academic research and research leadership. She has published over 90 research papers in the top journals of applied mathematics. Prof. Chen has received over 20 grants from the Australian Research Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, and the Hong Kong UGC Research Grants Council (RGC). She was awarded a grant of over HK$3M from the RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) in 2022.

Prof. Chen has made a significant contribution to the promotion and maintenance of high professional standards in mathematical research at PolyU. She serves as an Area Editor and an Associate Editor for seven international journals including the SIAM (Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics) Journal on Numerical Analysis and the SIAM Journal on Optimization.