Long a faculty member at Simon Fraser University, Canada, between 1990 and 1998, Professor Tao Tang subsequently served at Hong Kong Baptist University from 1998 to 2015, in a variety of key roles, from Head of the Department of Mathematics, Dean of Science, Director of Graduate School, to Associate Vice-President.
Before joining UIC as the President, Professor Tang was the Vice-president and Provost at the Southern University of Science and Technology as well as its Chair Professor of Mathematics.
Honors and Awards
2022: Fellow of European Academy of Sciences
2018: Invited Speaker of International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)
2017: Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017: Fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS)
2016: Second Prize of 2016 National Natural Science Award
2012: Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
2008-2012: President, Hong Kong Mathematical Society
2007: First Prize in Natural Science Awards by Ministry of Education
2007: National Nature Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2005: Changjiang Chair Professor, the Ministry of Education, China
2003: Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing
1988: Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis