Biographical information

Dr. T. Tang is a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University. He completed his undergraduate work at Peking University in 1984, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Leeds in 1989. An instructor who enjoys teaching, Dr. Tang taught courses on calculus, numerical analysis, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics etc. His research interests span many areas, including numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics and nonlinear differential/integral equations.

Dr. Tang has received a wide range of support from the NSERC Canada, Hong Kong RGC, British EPSRC and NSF China. He had been a faculty member in the Mathematics Department of Simon Fraser University (1990-98). He has also held several visiting positions. He had been a member of International Research Team on Complex System of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2002-2005. From 2006 to 2008, he is an Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), under a joint program of Chinese Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation of Hong Kong.

Author of more than 70 papers, Dr. Tang also serves on several editorial board of top international journals on applied mathematics and computational physics including

• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
• Journal of Computational Mathematics
• Journal of Computational Physics
• Mathematics of Computation
• Computers and Fluids
• Journal of Scientific Computing
• Communications in Computational Physics
• Frontiers of Mathematics in China

In particular, he is the co-Managing Editor of a newly established international journal Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP) which publishes original research and survey papers of high scientific value in computational modeling of physical problems. CiCP became an SCI journal in its first year of publication. He was also one of the founding members of Communications in Mathematical Sciences (from 2002 to 2005) and Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (from 2002 to 2005).

Dr. Tang won a Leslie Fox Prize, an International prize for numerical analysis, in 1988 at Imperial College, London. In 2003, he was awarded a Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing. He was named a Distinguished Visiting Professor by Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences (AMSS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Tang has been active in the community services. He was/is in the Board of Chinese Computational Mathematics Society, Hong Kong Mathematical Society. He has been a member of SIAM, a member of SIAM Committee on Section Activities (2006-07) and the President-elect of the East Asia SIAM Section. At Hong Kong Baptist University, he has been the Director of Hong Kong Baptist University's Graduate School (since 2002).