Haidong Yuan is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He took a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering at Tsinghua University in 2001, then a master's degree in engineering science at Harvard University in 2002 and a PhD in applied mathematics there in 2006. After his doctorate he carried out postdoctoral work at Harvard and at MIT; from August 2012 to August 2014 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, then joined CUHK as an assistant professor and was later promoted to professor. His training spans electronic engineering, engineering science and applied mathematics, a background where engineering meets mathematics.
Yuan moved from electronic engineering at Tsinghua to applied mathematics at Harvard and back to teaching in Hong Kong, with research and teaching linking engineering problems to mathematical methods.
Achievements
- 2006 · Completed a PhD in applied mathematics at Harvard University.
- 2012 · Was an assistant professor in applied mathematics at PolyU until 2014.