Yum Tong SIU (Chairman)

William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics

Harvard University

Past appointments:

Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1996-1999

Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1982-1992

Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University, 1978-1982

Professor of Mathematics, Yale University, 1972-1978

Education:

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1966

Research interests:

Several complex variables, complex algebraic geometry, complex differential geometry

Service:

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Clay Institute of Mathematics, since 2003

International Advisor, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU, since 2006

Member, Editorial Board, Analysis & PDE

Member, Advisory Board for Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universitat Hamburg

Honors and awards:

Bergman Prize, American Mathematical Society, 1993

Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998

Elected member, US National Academy of Sciences, 2002

Elected (foreign member), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004

Elected member, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), 2004

Corresponding Member, Goettingen Academy of Sciences, 1993

Honorary degree, University of Hong Kong, 1990

Honorary degree, University of Bochum (Germany), 1998

Honorary degree, University of Macau, 2006

Douglas N. ARNOLD (from 1 July 2013)

McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics

University of Minnesota

Past appointments:

Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2001 - 2008

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1979

Research interests:

Numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and the interplay between these fields.

Service:

President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009 - 2010

Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, 2001 - 2008

Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, since 2012

Editorial Board, Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, since 2012

Editorial Board, SIAM Mathematics in Industry book series, since 2012

Editorial Board, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, since 2007

Editorial Board, Acta Numerica, since 2007

Editorial Board, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS), since 2002

Editorial Board, Numerische Mathematik, since 1998

Editorial Board, Calcolo, since 1997

Editorial Board, Advances in Computational Mathematics, since 1992

Moderator for numerical analysis, arXiv preprint server, since 2000

Honors and awards:

AMS Fellow, appointed 2012

AAAS Fellow, elected 2011

Foreign member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, elected 2009

SIAM Fellow, appointed 2009

AMS-MAA Invited Address, Joint Math Meetings, 2009

Guggenheim Fellow, 2008 - 2009

Plenary lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians, 2002

Louis CHEN (from 1 July 2013)

Distinguished Professor

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

National University of Singapore

Past appointments:

Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, 2006 - 2012

Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, 2000 - 2012

Head, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS, 2002 - 2004

Head, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 1996 -2000

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971

Research interests:

Probability, Stein's method, computational biology

Service:

President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA), 2004-2005

President, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1997-1999

Member, Education Service Commission, Singapore, 1990-1998

Associate Editor, Bernoulli, 1993-2000

Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 1988-1996

Honors and awards:

Elected Fellow, Singapore National Academy of Science, 2011

Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques 2005 (conferred by French Government)

Public Administration Medal (Silver), Singapore, 2002 (Singapore National Day Award)

Elected Fellow, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2000

Excellence for Singapore Award, Singapore, 1997

National Science and Technology Award (Singapore), 1991

Frederick L. Moore’18 Professor of Finance

Professor of Statistics

Past appointments:

Professor of Statistics & Chairman, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000-2003

Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1997-2000

Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996-1997

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989

Research interests:

Statistical theory and methods, financial econometrics, risk management,

computational biology and other interdisciplinary collaborations

Service:

President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2008

President, International Chinese Statistical Association, 2009

Co-Editor, The Annals of Statistics 2003-2006

Editor, Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2003 - 2005

Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association, since 1996

Co-Editor, Econometrics Journal, since 2007

Associate Editor of Econometrica, since 2010

Honors and awards:

COPSS Award, 2000

Humboldt Research Awards, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006

Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics, 2007

Guggenheim Fellow, 2009

Wolfgang HACKBUSCH (from 1 July 2013)

Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

Honorary Professor, Leipzig University

Professor, University of Kiel (on leave)

Education:

Ph.D., Cologne University, 1973

Habilitation, Cologne University, 1979

Research interests:

Numerical methods in partial differential equations and integral equations, efficient solution of large-scale and high-dimensional problems

Service:

Founding member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, 1993

Honors and awards:

Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the DFG, 1994

Brouwer Medal, 1996

Member of Leopoldina, since 2006

Professor, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Paris VI

Past appointments:

Director, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique, Université Paris VI, 1991-2001

Scientific Advisor, Center for Supercomputing (CSC), Finland

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1971

Doctor of Science, University of Paris VI, 1976

Research interests:

Mechanics, mathematical finance, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, optimization

Service:

Member of Scientific Council of INRIA, National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA)

President of the Scientific Council of the Research Initiative AMIES for Mathematics and Industry

President of the National Comity Strategic for Super Computing

Member, Commission for Nuclear Waste Disposal (CNE) 1998-2006

Honors and awards:

Blaise Pascal Prize of French Academy of Sciences, 1983

Member, Institut Universitaire de France, 1998

Marcel-Dassault Prize of French Academy of Sciences, 2001

Associate Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004

National Order of Merit, 1989 and Légion d'honneur, 2009

Member, French Academy of Sciences, 1997

QUEK Tong Boon

Education:

MA, University of Cambridge, 1981

MSc, National University of Singapore, 1985

Professional interests:

Defence technology and management of technology

Other appointments:

Chairman, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)

Board Member, DSO National Laboratories

Board Member, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)

Board Member, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR)

Board Member, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd

Chairman, Management Board, Temasek Laboratories, NUS

Chairman, Management Board, Temasek Laboratories, NTU

Chairman, Management Board, Temasek Defence Systems Institute (TDSI)

Honors and awards:

Public Administration Medal (Silver), Singapore, 1996

Honorary Fellow, Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES), 2009

Chevalier (Knight) of Légion of Honour of the French Republic, 2011

Hugh WOODIN

Past appointments:

Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1989-2003

Chair, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2002-2003

Chair, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2010-2011

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1984

Research interests:

Set theory

Honors and awards:

Carol Karp Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic, 1989

Senior Humboldt Research Award, 1996

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000

Honorary Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2010

Section lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians 1986 at Berkeley, USA

Section lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians 2002 Beijing, China

Plenary Lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 Hyderabad, India

HO Teck Hua (ex-officio)

Vice President (Research Strategy), NUS

Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, NUS

Chairman, Management Board, IMS, since 2013

Other appointments:

William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing, University of California, Berkeley

Director, Asia Business Center, University of California, Berkeley

Education:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993

Research interests:

Experimental and behavioural economics, quantitative marketing models, and marketing and production interfaces

Service:

Department Editor of Behavioural Economics for Management Science

Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science

Co-Editor for Foundations and Trends in Marketing

Honors and awards:

Finalist, William F. O’Dell Award for long-term contribution to marketing theory, practice or methods, 2011

Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, 2010

Finalist, John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, 2005

Finalist, Paul Green Best Paper Award, 2005

Berkeley-Haas Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004, 2005, 2006

CHONG Chi Tat (ex-officio)

Past appointments:

Head, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 2006-2012

Professor of Mathematics, NUS, 1989-2004

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Deputy President and Provost, NUS, 1996-2004

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University, 1973

Research interests:

Computability theory

Service:

President, Singapore Mathematical Society, 1993-1996

Member, Council of Association for Symbolic Logic, 1996-2000

Editor, Journal of Mathematical Logic, since 2000

Member, Executive Committee, Council of Association for Symbolic Logic, since 2005

Chairman, Management Board, Asia Research Institute, since 2005

Member, Board of Trustees, UniSim, since 2005

Member, Board of Management, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, since 2001

Honors and awards:

Public Administration Medal (Gold), Singapore, 2002