Chong Chi Tat
Chong Chi Tat is University Professor and Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests are in the areas of recursion/computability theory.[1]
Academic career
Professor Chong received his BSc (with distinction) from Iowa State University and his PhD from Yale University. He began his career in NUS as a Lecturer in 1974. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer (1980–1985), Associate Professor (1985–1989) and Professor (1989–2004). Professor Chong held many administrative leadership positions including Vice Dean of Science (1985–1996); Head, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (1993–1996); Deputy Vice Chancellor, Deputy President and Provost (1996–2004); and Head, Department of Mathematics (2006–2012). In 2004, Professor Chong was named the second University Professor of NUS, the highest honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members.[2]
Selected works
- Chi Tat Chong and Yue Yang, Ramsey's theorem, reverse mathematics and nonstandard models, Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter 5 (2015), no. 2, 1–4.
- Chi Tat Chong, Theodore A Slaman and Yue Yang, The metamathematics of stable Ramsey’s theorem for pairs, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, (2014), 863-892.
- Chi Tat Chong, Theodore A Slaman and Yue Yang, Pi^1_1 conservation of combinatorial principles weaker than Ramsey’s theorem for pairs, Advances in Mathematics (2012), 1060-1071.
- Chi Tat Chong and Yue Yang, The jump of a Sigma_n cut, Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2007), 690—704.
Awards and honors
Chong received the Public Administration Medal (Gold), in Singapore's National Day Awards 2002.[3] He has been a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science since 2011.[4]