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Ying Lexing

b. 1978

Mathematician and university teacher

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About Ying Lexing

Born 1978. Ying Lexing is a Chinese mathematician, university teacher and academic.

Lexing Ying is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He specializes in scientific computing and numerical analysis. In particular, his research concerns the design of numerical algorithms for problems in scientific computing.

Ying received his bachelor's degree in computer science and applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1998. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute at New York University in 2004, under the guidance of Denis Zorin. Before joining Stanford in 2012, he was a post-doc at California Institute of Technology and a professor at University of Texas, Austin.

The awards Ying has received include a Sloan Fellowship in 2007, an NSF Career Award in 2009, the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 2013 (for "his outstanding contributions in many areas, including the rapid evaluation of oscillatory integral transforms, high frequency wave propagation and the computation of electron structure in metallic systems"), and a silver Morningside Medal in 2016. He is an invited speaker of International Congress of Mathematicians 2022.

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Important facts

Born
1978
Birth century
Education
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, New York University
Employers
Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin
Awards
James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Feng Kang Prize
Also known as
Lexing Ying

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Who is Ying Lexing?

mathematician and university teacher

When was Ying Lexing born?

Ying Lexing was born in 1978.

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Ying Lexing is a mathematician, university teacher and academic.

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Ying Lexing is Chinese.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ying Lexing

· Wikidata: Q15855293

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