Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellowship 2022

Professor BAO Weizhu, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science was conferred the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellowship 2022 for his significant contributions in modelling and simulating Bose-Einstein condensation and multiscale methods and analysis for highly oscillatory dispersive partial differential equations (PDEs).

Prof Bao’s research interests include numerical methods for PDEs, scientific computing/numerical analysis, analysis and computation for problems from physics, chemistry, biology and engineering sciences.

He served on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2009 to 2014) and is currently an editorial board member of SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis. In 2013, he received the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing, awarded by the Chinese Computational Mathematics Society, which honours young Chinese scientists in China and abroad for their significant contributions in the broad areas of scientific computing.

Prof Bao has been invited to speak at plenaries and/or international conferences, including the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.  In 2022, he was also elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for contributions to numerical analysis, in particular the numerical solution of PDEs and their applications.

Prof Bao received his PhD from Tsinghua University (1995) and thereafter held postdoctoral and faculty positions at Tsinghua University, Imperial College London, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin Madison. He joined NUS in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2009. He was also an appointed Provost’s Chair Professor (2013 to 2016). 

SIAM Fellows are a core group of individuals nominated for their exemplary research which advances the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.

Congratulations, Prof Bao!