Hung Cheng

American professor of applied mathematics

Hung Cheng
Born	鄭洪 (1937-03-02) March 2, 1937 (age 87) Canton (Guangzhou), Republic of China
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics Theoretical physics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Spin Absorption of Solids (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Leverett Davis, Jr.

Hung Cheng

Traditional Chinese

鄭洪

Simplified Chinese

郑洪

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhèng Hóng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	zeng6 hung4

Hung Cheng (鄭洪; born March 2, 1937), also known as Hong Zheng, is an American mathematician, novelist, and physicist teaching at MIT.

Education

Cheng received his B.Sc and the Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, in 1959 and 1961. He had post-doctorate research appointments at Caltech, Princeton University and Harvard University before joining the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1965. His doctoral advisor was Leverett Davis, Jr., and his thesis was on spin absorption lines of solids.

Career

In 1978, he was elected academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica. He has also served as the chairman of the applied mathematics committee at the MIT Department of Mathematics, and is on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Applied Mathematics. His recent research interests have been directed to the mathematical physics of dark matter and dark energy. In 2017, Cheng received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Technology and Humanity/Humanities from the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

In 2016, Cheng published his first novel, Nanjing Never Cries.