The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) recently elected 47 new Fellows, hailing from 24 countries and regions worldwide, six of whom are from the Chinese mainland institutions. Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and UIC President Prof Tang Tao was the only Chinese person in the field of Mathematical Sciences elected in 2023.
TWAS supports sustainable prosperity through research, education, policy and diplomacy. It is based in Trieste, Italy, founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the developing world.
Today, TWAS has about 1,400 elected fellows in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology, agronomy, medicine, engineering sciences, social and economics. They are some of the world's most accomplished scientists and engineers, representing more than 100 countries; 12 of them are Nobel laureates. About 84 per cent come from developing nations, and the rest are scientists from the developed world whose work has had a significant impact.
Prof Tang Tao is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and Fellow of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM). Widely known for his expertise in computational mathematics, in particular high-order methods and adaptive grid methods, Professor Tang was awarded the Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, the Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, First Prize in Natural Science by Ministry of Education, and Second Prize in the National Natural Science Award. He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2018.
Prof Tang has long served in Canada and Hong Kong in a variety of key roles. From 2015 to 2019, he was appointed as the Vice-president and Provost at the Southern University of Science and Technology. At present, he is the President of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC).
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