About Wenbin Guo’s work
From April to October 2001, Wenbin Guo held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the time, Guo was based at Yangzhou University.
Biography
Guo Wenbin graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Yangzhou Normal University in 1978, studied at Wuhan University from 1984 to 1986, received a Doctorate in mathematics-physics from the USSR in 1992, a Doctorate in mathematics-physical sciences from Belarus in 2002, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Gomel University of Belarus in 2009. Over the years, Guo Wenbin has taught at many universities, including Yangzhou University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Jiangsu Normal University. He is the head of the key discipline of basic mathematics in Jiangsu Province. In 1994, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Backbone Teacher of Jiangsu Province, in 1998 he was awarded the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, in 2001 he was awarded the honorary title of Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, in 2001 he was awarded the first prize of Jiangsu Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, and in 2009 he was named National Model Teacher. His research interests include group theory and norm algebra.