About Xinmin Yang’s work
From March to September 1999, Xinmin Yang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At the time, Yang was based at Chongqing Normal University.
Biography
Xinmin Yang graduated from Chongqing Normal University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1983, a master's degree from Chongqing University in 1988, was promoted to associate professor in 1992, professor in 1993. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Chongqing Normal University. Yang has served as the Chairman of the board of supervisors of the Operations Research Society of China, the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Adjunct professor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada.
Yang was nominated as a candidate for the 2023 members of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the 1980s, Yang used modelling and analysis to select Chongqing's pillar industries, found a balance between problems and opportunities, and identify six major industries. In 2020, during the Covid period, Yang's team analyzed the spread and control of sudden infectious diseases with the help of mathematical tools.