Weinan E

Weinan E is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, after which he held visiting positions at New York University (NYU) and the Institute for Advanced Study. He was a member of the faculty of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1994 to 1999. E was awarded the Collatz Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2003, and SIAM’s Ralph E. Kleinman Prize and Theodore von Kármán Prize in 2009 and 2014 respectively. He became a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2005, an inaugural SIAM Fellow in 2009, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He was also elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011.  (Learn more.)