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- Invited speaker at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics (ICAM 2026), City University of Hong Kong, June 9-12, 2026.
- Organizing committee of Workshop W27: Foretell of Future AI from Mathematical Foundation (MATH4AI), AAAI-26 The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, January 20-27, 2026.
- Scientific committee of the Conference on Modern Kernel Methods and Applications, on the occasion of Robert Schaback's 80th birthday, HKBU, January 5-9, 2026.
- Scientific committee of the Hong Kong Joint Universities Conference on Structured Matrices and Scientific Computing, HKBU, September 24-28, 2025.
- Talk in DRWAA25 Dolomites Research Week on Approximation and Applications, Alba di Canazei (TN) - Italy, 08-12 September 2025.
- Awarded a Guangdong-Hong Kong Universities “1+1+1” Joint Funding Programme by GDSTC, HKBU, and BNBU: Data-driven Scientific and Engineering Computing Algorithms and Software (BNBU Co-PI: Y. Di, HKBU Co-I: Y.S. Hon, K.F. Lam, X. Tang), 2025.
- Appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technolgy, BNU-HKBU-United International College (UIC), 2024-2029.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Advancements in Meshfree
Methods for Hyperbolic
Conservation Laws on High-Dimensional Manifolds (Co-I: W.S. Don), 2024.
- External Examiner for the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science and Business Intelligence (DSBI) Programme, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, 2023-2026.
- Received an in-kind donation and research funding from the Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Marine Analytics: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, 2023-2025.
- Received an in-kind donation and research funding from the Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Physics-Informed Regression and PDE solvers, 2023-2025.
- Steering Committee of the Hang Lung Mathematics Awards (HLMA), 2023.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM2023 The 46th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, May 15-17, 2023.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Kernel-based hybrid methods for convection-dominated equations on surfaces, 2022.
- Board member of Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (HKSIAM), 2022--now.
- External examiner for the Bachelor of Education - Mathematics, Education University of Hong Kong, 2022-2023.
- Minisymposium talk in AN22 SIAM Annual Meeting, Virtual/Pennsylvania, USA, July 11-15, 2022.
- Received an in-kind donation and research funding from the Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Meshfree approximations for high
dimensional manifolds and machine
learning, 2022-2024.
- Minisymposium talk & International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM2022 The 45th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Tallinn, Estonia, May 24-26, 2022.
- Guest speaker in the Session: High Order Methods for PDEs, KSIAM 2021 Annual Meeting, Busan, Korea, December 2-5, 2021.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): An intrinsic formulation for radial basis function finite difference methods of partial differential equations on manifolds, 2021.
- Talk in the 5th Dolomites Workshop on Constructive Approximation and Applications, Virtual workshop dedicated to Professor Robert Schaback, and in particular, in honour of his 75th birthday. September 6-10, 2021.
- External examiner for the Bachelor of Education - Mathematics, Education University of Hong Kong, 2020-2022.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Kernel-based approximation methods for curvatures estimations and applications on raw point clouds, 2020.
- Co-opted Member of the Admission Panel of the Technology Business Incubation Programmes of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, 2020-2022.
- External Examiner for the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science and Business Intelligence (DSBI) Programme, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, 2020-2023.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM2021 The 44th International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, June 15-17 2021, Valencia, Spain.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM2020 The 43rd International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, 8–20 May 2020 Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
- Invited speaker of the Second HKBU-SJTU Joint Workshop on Scientific Computing, Shanghai, China, October 25-27, 2019.
- Invited speaker of the International Conference of Kernel-based Methods and its Applications, Suzhou, China, October 10-14, 2019.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): On the Asymptotics of Least-squares Kernel Collocation Methods, 2019.
- Working group "RBF and Kernel methods" in DRWA19 Dolomites Research Week on Approximation, Alba di Canazei, Italy, September 2-8, 2019
- External examiner of the Financial Mathematics program of United International College, 2019-2023.
- Invited speaker and Scientific Committee of the 9th Conference on Trefftz Methods and 5th Conference on Method of Fundamental Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal, July 29-31, 2019
- Invited speaker and International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM2019 The 42nd International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Coimbra, Portugal, 2-4 July 2019.
- External examiner for the Bachelor of Education - Mathematics, Education University of Hong Kong, 2018-2020.
- Appointed as HKDSE Mathematics subject committee member, Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, 2018-2021.
- Selected as postdoctoral supervisor of 2018 Hong Kong Scholar Dr. Zhengjie Sun, 2018-2020.
- Promoted to Professor, 2018.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Meshfree Methods for Coupled Bulk-Surface Problems, 2018.
- Scientific Committee and speaker of IWMM2018 The 4th International Workshop on Meshless Methods, International Academic Communication
Center, Changsha, August 3-4, 2018.
- Minisymposium talk in the ICOSAHOM18 International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods,
Imperial College, London, July 9-13, 2018.
- Invited talk in the 2nd International conference on kernel-based approximation methods in Data Analysis, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, May 25-27, 2018.
- Speaker of the HKBU-SJTU Joint Workshop
on Scientific Computing, HKBU, April 20-22, 2018.
- Guest speaker of the Mathematics and STEM Seminar Series of the Education Bureau, HK Museum of History, February 28, 2018.
- External Examiner for degree module(s) of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hang Seng Management College, 2017-2020.
- Invited Speaker of Workshop on Scientific Computing, HKBU, November 25, 2017.
- Organizer of Workshop on Numerical Methods for
Hyperbolic Conservation and Balance Laws and Applications, HKBU, November 10-11, 2017.
- Senior Particpants of Workshop on Numerical Methods for PDEs on Surfaces, Loon Lake BC, Canada, June 11–15, 2017.
- Invited talk in the 1st International conference on kernel-based approximation methods in Machine Learning, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, May 19-21, 2017.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM2018 The 41st International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, 11-13 September 2018.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Meshfree methods for parabolic equations based on weighted least-squares, 2017.
- Appointed as Programme Director for BSc in Mathematics ans Statistics of the Department of Mathematics, HKBU, September 2016.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM2017 The 40th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, from 12-14 September 2017.
- Invited talk in ICCP10 The 10th International Conference on Computational Physics, Macau, January 16-20, 2017.
- Awarded the Academic Staff Fellowship, HKBU/Simon Fraser University, 2016/17.
- Invited talk & International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM2016 The 39th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Siena, Italy, September 20-22, 2016.
- Invited talk in ICCOPT2016 The fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 6-11, 2016.
- Keynote talk in ICCM2016 The 7th International Conference on Computational Methods, UC Berkeley, USA, August 1-4, 2016.
- Invited plenary talk in ICIP2016 The 8th International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, Seoul, Korea, June 27-July 1, 2016.
- Invited talk & Scientific Advisory Committee in International Workshop on Meshless methods and their applications, Taiyuan, China, June 25-28, 2016.
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Advanced Mesh-based and Particle-based Numerical Methods for Engineering and Applied Mathematics Problems in the Mathematical Problem in Engineering, 2016.
- Invited talk in Workshop on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Macau, Dec. 12-13 2015.
- Received an Incentive Award for Academic Staff Member with Outstanding Research Achievement, Oct. 2015.
- Texts in GE are now avaiable in PEARSON eStore, Oct. 2015.
- Awarded an Oversea Scholars Collaborative Fund (Hohai University) by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016-18.
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Appointed as Programme Director for BSc Joint Programmes of the Department of Mathematics, HKBU, Jan 2015-Augusts 2016.
- Minisymposium organizer, High Order Numerical Methods for PDEs-Hybrid Methods, ICIAM15 the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Beijing, China, August 10-14, 2015.
- External Examiner for degree module(s) of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hang Seng Management College, 2014-2017.
- Re-appointed as Associate Head of the Math department, HKBU, AY2014-2017.
- Appointed as Programme Coordinator for BSc Joint Programmes of the Department of Mathematics, HKBU, Sept 2014 - Dec 2014.
- Appointed as Steering Committee on Alumni Relations, HKBU, AY2014-16.
- International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM 38 International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, September 21-23, 2015.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Error-Optimal Methods for PDEs Arise from Meshless Theories, 2014.
- Awarded the Academic Staff Fellowship, HKBU/Simon Fraser University, 2013/14.
- Organizer of SCPDE14 the 5th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong, China, December 8-12, 2014.
- Minisymposium organizer, Theoretical and Computational Analyses for Inverse Problems, ICCM2014 the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods, Cambridge, UK, July 28-30, 2014.
- Minisymposium speaker of the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, July 7-11, 2014.
- Invited Speaker of the 6th International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Analyses for Inverse Problems, Guangzhou, China, March 15-16, 2014.
- Invited Speaker of the Conference on Diffusion in Heterogeneous Media and Related Topics, Tokyo, Japan, March 6--8, 2014.
- Keynote Speaker of the 5th Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics & 4th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Singapore, December 11-14, 2013.
- Invited Speaker of the 36th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Dalian, China, October 22-24, 2013.
- Completed publishing the HKMS Texts in General Education Mathematics, Pearson Education Asia, Vol.1-9, August 2013.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Convergence theories and adaptive algorithms for Kansa Methods, 2013.
- Appointed as University Honorary Scholar of the School of Continuing Education, HKBU, AY2013-2015.
- International Scientific Committee of the 5th International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Analyses for Inverse Problems, Taiyuan, China, July 19-21, 2013.
- International Scientific Advisory of the 35th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, June 11-13, 2013.
- Plenary Speaker of eLFA2013 the 8th Learning Forum Asia, Hong Kong China, May 29-31, 2013.
- Received the Faculty/School Performance Award in Teaching, 2013.
- Selected as one of the journal's most valued referees of 2012, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, February, 2013.
- Organizer of the ICCP8 The 8th International Conference on Computational Physics, Hong Kong, China, Jan. 7-11, 2013.
- Plenary Speaker of the ICIP 2012 The International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, Nanjing, China, Oct. 21-26, 2012.
- International Scientific Committee of the Meshless Methods in Science and Engineering, Porto, Portugal, July 30 - August 1, 2012.
- Promoted to Associate Professor, 2012.
- Appointed as Associate Head of the Math department, HKBU, AY2012-2014.
- Invited talk in the 8th East Asia SIAM conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25 - 27, 2012.
- International Program Committee of the 6th International Conference on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation, Antalya, Turkey, May 21-26, 2012.
- Track Chair of the IFAC12 The 5th Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Nanjing, China, May 14-17, 2012.
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Inverse Problems and Applications in Applicable Analysis, 91(4), 2012.
- Organizer of the SCPDE11 International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong, China, December 5-9, 2011.
- Appointed as Editorial Board Member of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2011.
- Contributed talk in the 33rd International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, June 28-30, 2011.
- Invited Speaker and Scientific Committee of the Joint International Workshop on Trefftz Method VI and Method of Fundamental Solutions II, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 15-18, 2011.
- Received the Faculty/School Performance Award in Service, 2011.
- Editor of Proceeding of the International Conference on Inverse Problems 2010, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 290, 2011.
- Organizer of the 2010 International Conference
on Inverse Problems and Applications, Hong Kong, December 13-17, 2010.
- Invited Speaker of the International Conference on Boundary Element and Meshless Techniques, Berlin, Germany, July 12-14, 2010.
- Contributed talk in the ICCES2010 International
Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Las Vegas, USA, March 28-April 1, 2010.
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Regularization method for detecting corrosion in pipelines, 2009.
- Invited Speaker of the International Conference
on Inverse Problems and Applications,
Daejeon, Korea, August 17-20, 2009.
- Contributed talk in the ICOSAHOM09 International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods,
Trondheim, Norway, June 22-26, 2009.
- Appointed as Associate Editor, AAMM Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2009.
- Editor of the Special Issue on Numerical methods and analysis for PDEs and inverse problems in Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 1(6), 2009.
- Organizer of the SCPDE08 International
Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations,
Hong Kong, China, December 8-13, 2008
- Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Convergence Analysis for Meshless Unsymmetric Collocation Method with Multiscale Property, 2008.
- Supervisor of the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates U.S.-HK, 2008.
- Invited Speaker of the Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong, China, June 16-26, 2008.
- Keynote Speaker of the ICCES08 International
Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences,
Honolulu, USA, March 16-22, 2008.
- Organizer of the Second Workshop
on Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Hong Kong, China, January
19-22, 2008.
- Organizer of the International Workshop
on Numerical Analysis and Computational Methods for Functional Differential
and Integral Equations, Hong Kong, China, 3-6 December, 2007.
- Contributed talk in the 3rd East
Asia SIAM Conference, Xiamen, China, November 2-5, 2007.
- Supervisor of the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates U.S.-HK, 2007.
- Keynote Speaker of the ECCOMAS
Thematic conference on meshless methods, Porto, Portugal, 9-11 July
2007.
- Contributed talk in the ICOSAHOM07 International Conference On Spectral and High Order Methods, Beijing, China, June 18- 22, 2007.
- Organizer of the First Workshop on Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 7-10, 2007.
- Join the Math department of Hong Kong Baptist University as Assistant Professor, 2006.
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