About the Award
This award recognizes the leading mathematicians with distinguished achievements for the lifetime service to Chinese mathematics.
Established in 2022
2025 Recipients
Zhou-Ping Xin 辛周平
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhou-Ping Xin is the William M. W. Mong Professor of Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at CUHK, a position he has held since May 2020. His main research interests encompass partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, mathematical physics, nonlinear waves, numerical analysis, and applied mathematics.
Professor Xin obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics from Northwestern University between 1978 and 1984. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1988. Prior to his current positions at CUHK, he served on the faculty of the Courant Institute in the United States, progressing from Courant Instructor (1988-1990) to Assistant Professor (1990-1993), Associate Professor (1993-1996), and ultimately Professor of Mathematics (1996-2001). He was also a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1993 to 1994.
His professional service includes leadership roles in mathematical societies worldwide. He has been President (2012-2016) and Vice President (2004-2012) of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society, and continues as a Council Member at Large. Since 2016, he has been a Member of the Academic Committee of the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians.
Professor Xin received many academic honours including: Sloan Research Fellowship(1991); PresidentialFollowship (NYU, 1993); ICM Invited Speaker(2002); ICCM Gold Medal in Mathematics (2004); and ICIAM Invited speaker (2027).