About the Award
The Lin Prize will be first awarded at ICCM 2025. Together with the Chern Prize and Hua Prize, it is listed as the three main awards of ICCM to award Chinese mathematicians older than 45 years. Shing-Tung Yau said: "We have set up the Chern Prize in ICCM to honor Chinese mathematicians who are over 45 years old. It has a long history. But as time evolves, there are many more subjects and many mathematicians who should be awarded. Therefore, we decided to set up two more prizes parallel to the Chern Prize at the upcoming major meeting of ICCM (2025 ICCM)". The establishment of the award is to commemorate the great applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin, and aims to reward mathematicians over 45 years old who have made extraordinary achievements in the field of applied mathematics.
Established in 2025
2025 Recipients
Weinan E 鄂维南
Professor, Peking University
Weinan E is a professor in the Center for Machine Learning Research (CMLR) and the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, as well as a professor emeritus at Princeton University. He is also the inaugural director of the AI for Science Institute in Beijing. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; a fellow of SIAM, AMS, IOP, CSIAM, CCF and ORSC.
His main research interest is numerical algorithms, machine learning and multi-scale modeling, with applications to chemistry, material sciences, fluid mechanics, etc. He was a plenary speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), a keynote speaker at the 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and an invited speaker at ICM2002 and ICIAM 2007. He has also been invited speaker at leading conferences in many other scientific disciplines, including the APS, ACS, AIChe annual meetings, the American Conference of Theoretical Chemistry and the World Congress of Computational Mechanics.
He was awarded the ICIAM Collatz Prize in 2003, the SIAM Kleinman Prize in 2009, the SIAM von Karman Prize in 2014, the SIAM-ETH Peter Henrici Prize in 2019, the ACM Gordon-Bell Prize in 2020, the ICIAM Maxwell Prize in 2023, and the CSIAM Su Buchin Prize in 2024.