Work Education

• 02/2022-Now. Head of Department.
• 01/2020-02/2022. HKBU-SFU Double Degree Program Director.
• 07/2020-10/2020. BSc Program Director.
• 03/2020-06/2020. Associate Head of Department.
• 08/2019-03/2020. Acting Head of Department.
• 2018. Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
• 01/2015-08/2016. BSc Program Director.
• 09/2014-12/2014. BSc Program Coordinator.
• 2012. Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
• 06/2012-08/2017. Associate Head of Department.
• 2006. Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
• 2005. Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
• 2004-2005 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan.
  Under the supervision of Prof. Yamamoto Masahiro.
  Supported by a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers.
• 2003-2004 Senior Research Associate, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  Under the supervision of Prof. Benny Y. C. Hon.
• 2003 Ph.D. Applied and Computational Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
  Under the supervision of Prof. Manfred R. Trummer.
  Partially supported by an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-B.
• 2000 M.Sc. Applied and Computational Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
  Under the supervision of Prof. Manfred R. Trummer.
  Partially supported by an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-A.
• 1997 B.Sc. (1st Hons) Applied Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Services Leadership

• Executive Council Member (Eleventh Committee, 2023–2027): China Society for Computational Mathematics (CSCM) of the Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS).
• Board Member (2022–Present): Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (HKSIAM).
• Council Member (2022–2026): Hong Kong Mathematical Society (HKMS).

Editorial Board

• 2008–Present. Editorial Board, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Elsevier.
  (JCR2024, IF=4.1, ENG., Multidiscip. MATH., Interdiscip. Appl. Q1:13/136)
• 2010–Present. Associate Editor, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Global Science Press.
  (JCR2024, IF=1.1, MECH., MATH., Appl. Q2:162/343)
• 2020–2023. Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor Francis.

Professional Activities, Awards & News

• Scientific committee of the ATMA 2027 - Approximation: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Torino, Italy, Feb. 1-4, 2027.
• Plenary talk at the BEM/MRM The 48th International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Method, Dalian, China, Oct. 15-18, 2026.
• Guest Editor: Special Issue on Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Convergence, Theory, and Computational Applications, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer.
• Awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC): Meshfree Regularity Detection and Its Applications, 2026.
• 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.
• Guest Editor: Special Issue on Modern Kernel Methods and Applications — on the occasion of Robert Schaback's 80th Birthday, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Elsevier.
• 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, September 8-12, 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 Technology, 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/MRM 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 and International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM 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/MRM The 44th International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, June 15-17, 2021, Valencia, Spain.
• International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM The 43rd International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, May 8-20, 2020.
• 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/MRM The 42nd International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2-4, 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 Participants 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/MRM The 41st International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, September 11-13, 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 and Statistics of the Department of Mathematics, HKBU, September 2016.
• International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM The 40th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New Forest, UK, September 12-14, 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 and International Scientific Advisory Committee in BEM/MRM 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 and 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, December 12-13, 2015.
• Received an Incentive Award for Academic Staff Member with Outstanding Research Achievement, October 2015.
• Texts in GE are now available in PEARSON eStore, October 2015.
• Awarded an Overseas Scholars Collaborative Fund (Hohai University) by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016-2018.
• Appointed as Programme Director for BSc Joint Programmes of the Department of Mathematics, HKBU, January 2015-August 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, September 2014-December 2014.
• Appointed as Steering Committee on Alumni Relations, HKBU, AY2014-2016.
• International Scientific Advisory Committee of BEM/MRM The 38th 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 and 4th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Singapore, December 11-14, 2013.
• Invited Speaker of the BEM/MRM 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 BEM/MRM 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, January 7-11, 2013.
• Plenary Speaker of the ICIP 2012 The International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, Nanjing, China, October 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 BEM/MRM 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, December 3-6, 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, July 9-11, 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.
• Joined the Math department of Hong Kong Baptist University as Assistant Professor, 2006.