Prof. Weizhu Bao   
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Biography

Professor Weizhu Bao received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 1995. He was an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, and Visisting Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently he is a Full Professor at Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore. Professor Bao is well known for his work in applied mathematics with applications in quantum physics, chemistry and materials science, especially Bose-Einstein condensation and highly oscillatory partial differential equations. He has received many awards, including the Beijing Science and Technology Award in 2003, and the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in 2013. Professor Bao was also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. He was in the editorial board of many famous journals, including SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Journal of Computational Mathematics, and so on.

Prof. Lazim Abdullah

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Biography

Lazim Abdullah is a Professor of Computational Mathematics at the Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. He obtained his first degree from University of Malaya, in June 1984 and a master’s degree from the Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1999. He received his Ph.D from the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, in 2004. His research and expertise focuses on fuzzy set theory of mathematics, decision making, applied statistics,  and their applications to social ecology, environment, health sciences and management.   His research findings have been published in more than 360 publications including refereed journals, conference proceedings, chapters in book, monographs, and textbooks. He was ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists for single year 2019 by Stanford University in the field of artificial intelligence and image processing. Currently, he is the Head of Data and Digital Sciences Research Cluster at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.  Prof Lazim is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and  a member of International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.