Qiu Chengtong

Shing-tung Yau (English: Shing-tung Yau, born April 4, 1949), courtesy name Fengsheng, Han nationality, native of Jiaoling County, Meizhou, is a Chinese-American mathematician who has won the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He grew up in Hong Kong until graduating from college, and then went to the United States for further study and naturalized as an American citizen. He has served as a professor at Harvard University, Bowen Chair Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and director of the Yau Shing-tung Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University. Yau Shing Tong was born in Meizhou, China, moved to Hong Kong when he was under one year old, and moved to the United States in 1969. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 in recognition of his contributions to partial differential equations, Calabi's conjecture, the positive energy theorem, and the Menger-Ampere equation. On April 20, 2022, Qiu Chengtong left Harvard University to work at Tsinghua University. Winner of the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2023.