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Professor Eric Chung Tsz-shun, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Executive Director of the Zhizhen School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has been named as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in the class of 2025. He was awarded in recognition of his research contributions to numerical analysis and multiscale methods, and is the only scholar from Asia to receive this recognition this year.

Professor Chung said: “I am deeply honoured to be named as a SIAM Fellow. This recognition affirms the impact of my research in applied and computational mathematics, particularly numerical methods for partial differential equations, multiscale modelling and simulations, and scientific computing. These areas are critical to solving complex problems in industry, science and engineering. I hope my work continues to contribute to the advancement of science and technology globally.”

Professor Chung received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from CUHK in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He then received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Before taking up his position in CUHK, he worked at the University of California at Irvine as a Visting Assistant Professor from 2005 to 2006 and at the California Institute of Technology as a von Kármán Instructor from 2006 to 2008. He is the recipient of the 2017 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Young Scholar Award, 2022 ICCM Silver Medal of Mathematics and 2025 Frontiers of Science Award. Professor Chung has more than 200 research publications in Science Citation Index (SCI) ranked mathematical journals. He currently serves as the associate editor of 10 SCI ranked international mathematical journals including Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and Computers & Mathematics with Applications.