Gary P. T. Choi


Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Email: ptchoi@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: Room 204, Lady Shaw Building, CUHK
Telephone: (852) 3943-5481

Gary Choi is a Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2020. Prior to starting at CUHK, he worked as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT from 2020-2023.



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News


Apr 2025 Prof. Choi gave a popular science talk on Origami and Kirigami: Art, Mathematics, Science and Technology in The 19th Lau Oi Wah Memorial Science Lecture Series.

Mar 2025 Our work on Data-driven quasi-conformal morphodynamic flows has been accepted by the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

Mar 2025 Prof. Choi organized a minisymposium and gave a talk on Density-equalizing map with applications at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM-CSE25).

Jan 2025 Our work on Reactive robot navigation using quasi-conformal mappings and control barrier functions has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Jan 2025 Our work on Hemispheroidal parameterization and harmonic decomposition of simply connected open surfaces has been published in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Dec 2024 Prof. Choi wrote an article on Science is a universal language in the CUHK Faculty of Science e-Newsletter.

Dec 2024 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Density-equalizing map with applications at the HKMS-HKSIAM Joint Young Scholars Symposium 2024.

Nov 2024 Our article on Disk harmonics for analysing curved and flat self-affine rough surfaces and the topological reconstruction of open surfaces has been published in Journal of Computational Physics.

Oct 2024 Our article on Designing flexible mechanical metamaterials with complex functionalities has been published in Nature Materials.

Oct 2024 Our article on Spherical density-equalizing map for genus-0 closed surfaces has been published in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. Congratulations to group member Zhiyuan Lyu!

Aug 2024 Prof. Choi has been awarded the NSFC Young Scientists Fund. See also the CUHK Press Release.

Aug 2024 Our article on Computational design of art-inspired metamaterials has been published in Nature Computational Science.

Aug 2024 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Density-equalizing map for geometry processing at the Applied Mathematics Seminar at Harvard University.

Jul 2024 Prof. Choi gave a talk on Density-equalizing map with applications at the CUHK Mathematics M.Phil-Ph.D. Admission Workshop.

May 2024 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Geometric design of kirigami metamaterials at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science.

May 2024 Prof. Choi gave a talk on Kirigami metamaterial design using linear algebra at the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra.

May 2024 Prof. Choi gave a mathematics outreach talk on Mathematics and nature at Baptist Lui Ming Choi Secondary School.

Mar 2024 Our article on In vivo microrheology reveals local elastic and plastic responses inside three-dimensional bacterial biofilms has been published in Advanced Materials.

Mar 2024 Our article on Fast ellipsoidal conformal and quasi-conformal parameterization of genus-0 closed surfaces has been published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Mar 2024 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Density-equalizing map with applications at the CUHK SIAM Student Annual Workshop.

Mar 2024 Our article on Bijective density-equalizing quasiconformal map for multiply connected open surfaces has been publihsed in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

Jan 2024 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Quantifying shape variation using quasi-conformal geometry at 2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings.

Sep 2023 Our article on Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Sep 2023 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Quantifying shape variation using quasi-conformal geometry at BIRS Workshop on Mathematical Methods for Exploring and Analyzing Morphological Shapes across Biological Scales.

Aug 2023 Prof. Choi gave an invited talk on Density-equalizing map with applications at The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM).

Jul 2023 Gary Choi has joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a tenure-track assistant professor under the University’s flagship Vice-Chancellor Early Career Professorship Scheme.


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