Bao Gang

Bao, a chair professor of mathematics at Zhejiang University (ZU) and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, joined ZU in 2010 as chair of the Department of Mathematics within the School of Mathematical Sciences, a position he held until May 2020. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences, and president of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He obtained his PhD from Rice University, in 1991, where he also served as a research associate, as well as at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota (1991–1994). He was an assistant professor and then tenured associate professor at the University of Florida (1994–1999), followed by a full professorship at Michigan State University (1999–2014). He was the founding director of the Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at Michigan State University (2006–2014). His awards include the Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing (2003), and the Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award (2007). He was elected a SIAM Fellow in 2016, and an AMS Fellow and CSIAM Fellow in 2020.