Prof. Gary Pui Tung CHOI

Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor
BSc (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
MPhil (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
PhD (Harvard University)

[Teacher's name in full]
ORCID:
0000-0001-5407-9111
Address:
Room 204, Lady Shaw Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Tel:
(852) 3943 5481
Email:
ptchoi@math.cuhk.edu.hk
Personal Website:
https://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/~ptchoi/

Fields of Interest:
Applied and computational geometry, interdisciplinary mathematical modeling, metamaterial design, quantitative biology, medical imaging, geometry processing, scientific computing

Selected Publications:
  1. (with L. H. Dudte, K. P. Becker, and L. Mahadevan) An additive framework for kirigami design. Nature Computational Science, 3, 443-454, 2023.
  2. (with R. Supekar, B. Song, A. Hastewell, A. Mietke, and J. Dunkel) Learning hydrodynamic equations for active matter from particle simulations and experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2206994120, 2023.
  3. (with S. Al-Mosleh, A. Abzhanov, and L. Mahadevan) Geometry and dynamics link form, function and evolution of finch beaks.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46), e2105957118, 2021.
  4. (with L. H. Dudte and L. Mahadevan) An additive algorithm for origami design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(21), e2019241118, 2021.
  5. Efficient conformal parameterization of multiply-connected surfaces using quasi-conformal theory. Journal of Scientific Computing, 87(3), 70, 2021.
  6. (with S. Chen and L. Mahadevan) Deterministic and stochastic control of kirigami topology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(9), 4511-4517, 2020.
  7. (with L. H. Dudte and L. Mahadevan) Programming shape using kirigami tessellations. Nature Materials, 18(9), 999-1004, 2019.
  8. (with A. Pumarola, J. Sanchez-Riera, A. Sanfeliu, and F. Moreno-Noguer) 3DPeople: Modeling the geometry of dressed humans.
    The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2242-2251, 2019.
  9. (with C. H. Rycroft) Density-equalizing maps for simply connected open surfaces. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 11(2), 1134-1178, 2018.
  10. (with K. C. Lam and L. M. Lui) FLASH: Fast landmark aligned spherical harmonic parameterization for genus-0 closed brain surfaces. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 8(1), 67-94, 2015.
Honours and Awards:
  • NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2020
  • New World Mathematics Award, Silver Medal for Master Thesis, 2017
  • Croucher Foundation Scholarship, 2016
  • Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence, 2016

Courses

Course Code Course Title Academic Year Term
MATH4400A Project 2024/25 1
MATH2221A Mathematics Laboratory II 2024/25 2
MATH2221B Mathematics Laboratory II 2024/25 2
MATH2221C Mathematics Laboratory II 2024/25 2
Course Code Course Title Academic Year Term
MATH1010F University Mathematics 2023/24 1