About Guangwei Yuan’s work
Guangwei Yuan held a Croucher Visitorship at City University of Hong Kong from May to August 2001 and from March to April 2003. At the time, Yuan was based at the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics.
Biography
Yuan Guangwei received his Bachelor's degree from Hunan Normal University in 1982, his Master's degree from Xiangtan University in 1988, and his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 1992. In 1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics at the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, and he stayed at the institute since then. Yuan's research interests are the numerical solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations and parallel calculation methods. Awards that he has won include the Yu Min Mathematical Science Award, the first prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the first prize of the Science and Technology Innovation Award of the China Academy of Engineering Physics.