Gang Bao - Biography#

Gang Bao, Chair Professor of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. After his PhD degree at Rice University in 1991, he was a Research Associate at Rice University and the IMA, University of Minnesota (1991 - 1994), Assistant and Tenured Associate Professor at University of Florida (1994 - 1999), and Full Professor at Michigan State University (1999 - 2014). He was the Founding Director of the Michigan Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at Michigan State University (2006 - 2014). He joined Zhejiang University in 2010, as the Chair of Department of Mathematics until May 2020. A recipient of the Feng Kang Prize on Scientific Computing in 2003 and the MSU University Distinguished Faculty Award in 2007, elected SIAM Fellow in 2016, AMS Fellow and CSIAM Fellow in 2020, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023. He was an invited speaker of ICM in 2022.

Dr. Bao’s research interests include inverse problems for partial differential equations; mathematics and computation of wave propagation (acoustic, EM, Optical, and elastic) , and deep learning methods for PDEs. He has published over 170 papers in leading research journals including J. Amer. Math. Soc., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., J. Math. Pures Appl.,Trans of AMS, Math. Comp., as well as Nature Nanotechnology. Over the last ten years, Dr. Bao has served on the editorial boards of over 20 International research journals including SIAM J. Numer. Anal., SIAM J. Appl. Math, MMS of SIAM, J. Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, Inverse Problems and Imaging, and Trans. London Math. Soc.