Tan Eng Chye

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Tan Eng Chye
5th President of the
National University of Singapore
Assumed office
January 1, 2018
Preceded byTan Chorh Chuan
Personal details
ResidenceSingapore
Alma mater
Websitepresident.nus.edu.sg
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational University of Singapore
ThesisOn Some Geometrical Properties of K-Types of Representations (1989)
Doctoral advisorRoger Evans Howe
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tan.

Tan Eng Chye (Chinese: 陳永財; pinyin: Chén Yǒngcái) is the 5th and current president of the National University of Singapore (NUS), serving since January 2018.[1] Previously he was Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost at NUS.

Education[]

Tan Eng Chye attended Raffles Institution (1974 to 1979), obtained his Bachelor of Science in mathematics (First Class Honours, 1985) at NUS and his PhD (1989) at Yale University under the guidance of Roger Howe.[2]

Career[]

He joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985, as a Senior Tutor, eventually becoming the Department's Deputy Head in 1999. In June 2003, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science, a post he held till March 2007. Up till 2017, he served as NUS’ Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost.

Tan Eng Chye's research interests are representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, invariant theory and algebraic combinatorics. In collaboration with Roger Howe, he has written a well-known[citation needed] graduate-level textbook on non-Abelian harmonic analysis and contributed to several subjects in representation theory including degenerate principal series representations and branching rules. He has also been active in promoting mathematics, having established the Singapore Mathematical Society Enrichment Programmes in 1994, revamped the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad in 1995 to allow more participation from students, and initiated a series of project teaching workshops for teachers in 1998. He served as President of the from 2001 to 2005 and President of the South East Asian Mathematical Society from 2004 to 2005.

2018–present: NUS presidency[]

On 28 July 2017, Tan was named as the next president of NUS, taking over Tan Chorh Chuan.[3] He assumed office at the start of 2018. Along with the appointed, he was appointed to A*STAR's board as well, taking the seat meant for the university's president.[4] In 2020, NUS raised US$300 million through its first green bond.[5] In the same year, it established a research institute called the Asian Institute of Digital Finance alongside with Monetary Authority of Singapore and .[6]

In 2020, Tan said in an interview that he had plans for NUS to "tear down structures that inhibit interdisciplinarity",[7] with Professor Joanne Roberts of Yale-NUS College commenting that there were similarities between Yale-NUS and Tan's plans.[8] On 22 September 2020, NUS unveiled its plans for an interdisciplinary college, the College of Humanities and Sciences, allowing students to take courses from both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.[9] The new college took in its first intake in 2021.[10]

In 2021, Tan announced that Yale-NUS College would be closed by 2025, with 2021 intake of freshmen being the last intake. The college would also be merged with NUS' University Scholars Programme to offer a new cirriculum. The decision was unilaterally made by NUS, and came as a surprise to Yale-NUS' students and faculty, NUS' faculty, and Yale.[11] More than 10,000 people had signed a petition calling for the reversal of the decision,[12] and parliamentary questions about the decision was filed in the Singapore Parliament.[13]

Honours and awards[]

Tan received the Public Administration Medal (Gold), in Singapore's National Day Awards 2014.[14] He has been a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science since 2011.[15] He was conferred the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association in 2018,[16] and received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton, UK in the same year.[17]

Selected works[]

  • Roger Howe and Eng-Chye Tan Non-Abelian harmonic analysis. Applications of SL(2,R), Universitext. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992. ISBN 0-387-97768-6.
  • Howe, Roger E.; Tan, Eng-Chye (1993). "Homogeneous Functions on Light Cones: \\the Infinitesimal Structure of some Degenerate Principal Series Representations". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 28: 1–75. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00360-4.
  • Aslaksen, Helmer; Tan, Eng-Chye; Zhu, Chen-Bo (1995). "Invariant theory of special orthogonal groups". Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 168 (2): 207–215. doi:10.2140/pjm.1995.168.207.
  • Li, Jian-Shu; Paul, Annegret; Tan, Eng-Chye; Zhu, Chen-Bo (2003). "The explicit duality correspondence of (Sp(p,q),O∗(2n))". Journal of Functional Analysis. 200 (1): 71–100. doi:10.1016/S0022-1236(02)00079-4.
  • Howe, Roger; Tan, Eng-Chye; Willenbring, Jeb F. (2005). "Stable branching rules for classical symmetric pairs". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 357 (4): 1601–1627. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03722-5.

References[]

  1. ^ "Prof Tan Eng Chye to be next NUS President". news.nus.com.
  2. ^ Tan, Eng-Chye (1989). On some geometrical properties of K-types of representations (Ph.D.). Yale University. OCLC 54174603 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ hermesauto (2017-07-28). "NUS provost Tan Eng Chye will take over as university's president next year". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  4. ^ hermesauto (2017-12-29). "New NUS, NTU presidents among 3 new board members for A*Star in 2018". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  5. ^ Tay, Vivienne (May 27, 2020). "NUS raises S$300m in its first green bond issuance". www.businesstimes.com.sg. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  6. ^ hermesauto (2020-08-04). "Singapore to set up Asian digital finance research institute by end-2020". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  7. ^ "COVID-19 starts push for more interdisciplinary research". University World News. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  8. ^ "NUS' big push for interdisciplinary learning: Timely change but there'll be practical challenges, experts say". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  9. ^ "NUS unveils draft plans to set up combined College of Humanities and Sciences in 2021". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  10. ^ "Common modules, various subject combinations for first cohort at new NUS College of Humanities and Sciences in 2021". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  11. ^ "Students, faculty angry over closure of Yale-NUS College". University World News. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  12. ^ hermesauto (2021-08-31). "Over 10,000 sign petition calling for reversal of Yale-NUS merger, students and alumni seek answers at townhall". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  13. ^ "WP MPs to file parliamentary questions on Yale-NUS, USP merger for possible debate at Sept 13 sitting". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  14. ^ Singapore, Prime Minister's Office (November 17, 2018). "PMO | Recipients". Prime Minister's Office Singapore.
  15. ^ "Nine NUS professors conferred prestigious SNAS Fellowships". Archived from the original on November 18, 2016.
  16. ^ "NUS President conferred Yale medal". news.nus.com.
  17. ^ "NUS President receives honorary degree from Southampton". news.nus.com.

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Preceded by
Tan Chorh Chuan 		President of National University of Singapore
January 1, 2018 - present 		Incumbent
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