Curriculum Vitae - Kwokwai Chan


Address:
Department of Mathematics
Room 212, Lady Shaw Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 3943-7976    Fax: (852) 2603-5154
Email:
kwchan_at_math.cuhk.edu.hk (with _at_ replaced by @)

Personal: Male. Married, with 1 child. Date of birth: 4th Dec 1980. Hong Kong citizen.

Education

2002    B.Sc. (First Class Honors), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2004    M.Phil. in Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
             Thesis: On Some Constructions of Calabi-Yau Manifolds [pdf]
             Advisor: Prof. Kang Zuo


2008    Ph.D. in Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
             Thesis: Strominger-Yau-Zaslow Transformations in Mirror Symmetry [pdf]
             Advisor: Prof. Naichung Conan Leung

Employment

Aug 2008Jul 2010    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University (Mentor: Prof. Shing-Tung Yau)
Aug 2010 Jul 2011    William Hodge Fellow, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Jan 2011 Jul 2011     Project Researcher, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo
Aug 2011 Jul 2017    Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aug 2017 present     Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Other Academic Appointments

Jul 19 – Aug 15, 2015    Invited Lecturer of the course "Analysis and Topology", Tsinghua Math Camp 2015, Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Mirror Symmetry, Gromov-Witten Theory, Complex Geometry, Quantum Field Theory.

Publications

See the list here or that on arXiv, MathSciDoc, MathSciNet or Google Scholar.

Research Grants

Jan 2012 – Aug 2013    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC Direct Grant, Project ID: CUHK2060434, HK$100,000.
                                         Project Title: Homological Mirror Symmetry via SYZ Transformations

Jan 2013 – Dec 2016    Principal InvestigatorHong Kong RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS), Project No. 404412, HK$760,666.
                                         Project Title:
Open Gromov-Witten Theory and Mirror Symmetry

Jan 2014 – Dec 2016    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 400213, HK$423,562.
                                         Project Title: Geometry of Homological Mirror Symmetry

Jan 2015 – Dec 2017    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 14300314, HK$614,810.
                                         Project Title: Integrable Systems, Flag Varieties and Mirror Symmetry

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 14302015, HK$631,972.
                                         Project Title: Perturbative Quantum Field Theory and Mirror Symmetry

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 14314516, HK$488,501.
                                         Project Title:
Open Gromov-Witten Theory and Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties

Jan 2018 – Dec 2020    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 14302617, HK$708,430.
                                         Project Title:
Geometry of SYZ Transforms

Jan 2020 – Dec 2022    Principal Investigator, Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Project No. 14303019, HK$753,667.
                                         Project Title:
Perturbative QFT and Mirror Symmetry

Honors & Awards

Teaching Experience

Supervision

For postdoctoral researchers
For graduate students
For undergraduate students

Committee Services at CUHK

At the Faculty
01/08/2011 – 31/07/2015    Faculty Board (Member)
01/08/2012 – 31/07/2017    Faculty Scholarships Committee (Member)
01/08/2017 – present            Faculty Admission Committee (Member)

At the Department
01/08/2012 – 31/07/2014    Sub-committee on Service Course (Member)
01/08/2011 – 31/07/2015    Sub-committee on Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations (Member)
01/08/2013 – 31/07/2015    Staff-Student Consultative Committee (Member)
01/08/2013 – 31/07/2015    Department Alumni Affair Committee (Member)
01/08/2012 – 31/07/2017    Department Scholarship Committee (Chairman)
01/08/2012 – 31/07/2017    Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Algebra)
01/08/2017 – 31/07/2019    Research Committee (Member)
01/08/2017 – present            Admission Committee (Chairman)
01/08/2018 – present            Committee on First Year Mathematics Honours Scheme (Chairman)
01/08/2018 – present            Committee on Out-Reach (Member)

External Services

Conference and Seminar (Co-)organization

Invited Talks