Curriculum
Vitae - Kwokwai Chan
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
2008 – Jul
2010 Crouncher Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mathematics, Harvard
University (Mentor: Prof. Shing-Tung Yau)
Aug
2010 – Jul
2011 William
Hodge Fellow, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
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 – Jul 2023
Associate
Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Aug
2023 – present
Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese
University
of Hong Kong
Honors
& Awards
- Dean’s Honours List, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 1999 – 2000, 2000 –
2001, 2001 – 2002.
- The Croucher Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Croucher Foundation, Aug 2008 – Jul 2010. [link]
- New
World Mathematics Awards 2010, Silver Medal for Ph.D. Thesis, presented
at the 5th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. [link]
- The William Hodge Fellowship,
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
& IHES, Aug 2010 – Jul 2011.
- Faculty of Science Exemplary Teaching Award 2017,
The Chinese
University of Hong Kong.
- Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2017, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong. [link]
- 2017 ICCM Best Paper
Award, Silver Award for the
paper SYZ mirror symmetry for toric
Calabi-Yau manifolds.
- 2019 ICCM Best Paper Award
for the paper Open
Gromov-Witten invariants,
mirror maps, and Seidel representations for toric manifolds.
- 2020 HKMS Young Scholar Award, The Hong Kong
Mathematical Society. [link]