From academic pursuits to inspiring young scholars — internationally renowned mathematician Prof Raymond Chan says “No shortcuts to good results”
The seminar attracted an audience of about 100 vice-presidents, associate vice-presidents, staff and students.
On 12 February 2025, in the second session of the “A Personal Perspective on Doing Good Research” seminar series organised by the School of Graduate Studies of Lingnan University, Prof Raymond Chan Hon-fu, Vice-President (Academics) cum Provost and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Scientific Computing at Lingnan University, gave a talk entitled “Research Methodology — A Computational Mathematician’s Perspective”, attended by about 100 teachers and students.
An internationally known and respected Hong Kong-born and bred mathematician, Prof Chan has an outstanding reputation in the mathematics community. His “Superfast Iterative Solvers for Toeplitz Systems and their Applications” is a groundbreaking algorithm that dramatically accelerates the efficiency of processing image noise. It has been successfully applied in the fields of astronomical and medical imaging and improves the clarity of images captured by telescopes and medical devices.
Prof Raymond Chan Hon-fu leads the second seminar in the “A Personal Perspective on Doing Good Research” series to encourage young scholars.
Prof Chan, who has made important contributions to the international field of mathematical sciences, emphasised that groundbreaking innovations are not achieved by chance, and quoted Thomas Alva Edison’s “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” and Albert Einstein’s “It's not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer” to encourage young scholars. “Success requires hard work,” Prof Chan underlined.
The next seminar will be held on 6 March 2025, and presented by Prof Xin Yao, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning at Lingnan University, who will speak on “Good Taste in Research”.