Tao Tang

Biography

Prof. Tao TANG is Chair Professor of Mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Peking University in 1984. He pursued his further studies at the University of Leeds and received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1989. From 1990 to1998, he was a faculty member of Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. He joined Hong Kong Baptist University in 1999, serving as Associate Professor (1999-2001) and Professor (2001-2003) of Mathematics. In recent years, his research focuses on adaptive grid methods, high-order methods and numerical analysis. Since 1990, Prof. Tang has received a wide range of research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of UK (EPSRC) and the National Science Foundation of PRC. Prof. Tang has conducted international collaboration with foreign research partners in some eminent institutions, including the University of Washington, Brown University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and ETH Zurich etc. In recent years, he has successively established closer partnership with research colleagues from Peking University, Fudan University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing), Xiangtan University and so on. Prof. Tang was a member of International Research Team on Complex System of the Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2002-2005. From 2005 to 2009, he had been a Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), under the Cheung Kong Scholars Program jointly established by Chinas Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation of Hong Kong. In 2012, he was elected as an SIAM Fellow.

Research Interest

Prof. Tang’s research interests include computational fluid dynamics, scientific computation and numerical solution of partial differential equations.