Qiang Du is the Fu Foundation Professor at Columbia University, where he is a member of the Data Science Institute and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. Throughout his career, he has held prestigious positions, including tenured visiting faculty roles in Hong Kong and serving as the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University before joining Columbia in 2014. Du's contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards, such as the Frame Faculty Teaching Award, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Award, the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing, and the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, among others. He has also been a fellow of SIAM, AMS, and AAAS and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018. His editorial work includes serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Communications of the American Mathematical Society and Editor-in-Chief for the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. Du leads a research group focused on Computational Mathematics and Multiscale Modeling, with interests in mathematical modeling, analysis, scientific computation in physical, biological, and materials sciences, as well as machine learning.
Columbia University • New York, NY
Professor in the Data Science Institute and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.
Penn State University • University Park, PA
Professor of Mathematics and Materials Science and Engineering.
University of Chicago • Chicago, IL
Early academic position held after receiving Ph.D.