1989: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK.
1984 B.Sc. in Mathematics, Peking University, China
Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis
2017: Elected Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017: Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS Fellow)
2012: Fellow, Society on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Fellow)
2008-2010: President, Hong Kong Mathematical Society
2007-2008: President, East Asia SIAM Section
2018: Invited Lecture at ICM (International Congress of Mathematicians)
2016: National Natural Science Award (2nd class), China
2007: Natural Science for Tertiary Institutions (1st class), the Ministry of Education, China
2005: Changjiang Chair Professor, the Ministry of Education, China
2003: Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics, China
1988: Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK