Earlier in his career, Professor Smale was involved in controversy over remarks he made regarding his work habits while proving the higher-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. He said that his best work had been done "on the beaches of Rio". This led to the withholding of his grant money from the NSF. He has been politically active in various movements in the past, such as the Free Speech movement. At one time he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Professor Jean Salençon is Honorary Professor at the École polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France). He was Chair professor-at-Largee and Visiting Distinguished professor at the City University of Hong Kong (2011-2016).

Professor Mu-ming Poo obtained his Ph.D in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He did postdoctoral research at Purdue University, and later served on the faculty of University of California at Irvine, Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, UCSD, and University of California, Berkeley.

 

Professor Poo is currently the Scientific Director of Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), an institute he had served as the founding director during 1999 to 2019. 

 

Professor Benoît Perthame is an outstanding mathematician, very well known for several landmark contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations. He also possesses the unusual characteristic that he is applying his great mathematical skills to mathematical modeling in biology and to the analysis of the resulting equations. This is a relatively recent field, which is now recognized as a prominent one, in which he began his works about thirty years ago.

Professor Sir John Pendry received his Ph.D. in Solid State Theory from the University of Cambridge in 1969. He began his career in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (where he was a Fellow of Downing College), Bell Laboratories and Daresbury Laboratory. Since 1981, he has been the Chair in Theoretical Solid-State Physics in the Imperial College London where he has served as Dean, Head of Physics Department (1998-2001), and subsequently Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences (2001-2002).

Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome August 4, 1948, he completed his studies at the University of Rome and he graduated in physics in 1970 under the direction of Nicola Cabibbo.

He carried out his research at the National Laboratories of Frascati, first as a fellow of the CNR (1971-1973) and later as a researcher of the INFN (1973-1981). During this period he made long stays abroad: Columbia University, New York (1973-1974), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvettes (1976-1977), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (1977-1978).

白先勇，于1956年在建國中學畢業後，由於他夢想參與興建三峽大壩工程，以第一志願考取成功大學水利工程學系。翌年發現興趣不合，轉學台灣大學外國語文學系，改讀英國文學。1958年，他在《文學雜誌》發表了第一篇短篇小說《金大奶奶》。兩年後，他與台大的同學歐陽子、陳若曦、王文興等共同創辦了《現代文學》雜誌，並在此發表了《月夢》、《玉卿嫂》、《畢業》等小說多篇。

1962年，他飛往美國愛荷華大學的愛荷華作家工作室學習文學理論和創作研究。1965年，取得愛荷華大學碩士學位後，白先勇到加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校教授中國語文及文學，並從此在那裡定居。1994年退休。

白先勇出版有短篇小說集《寂寞的十七歲》、《台北人》、《紐約客》，散文集《驀然回首》，長篇小說《孽子》等。

Professor Alison Noble CBE FRS FREng FIET is currently the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Department of Engineering Science and a Professorial Fellow of St Hilda's College, at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a former Director of the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering (2012-16).

Tobin J. Marks is Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,  Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M Qatar University.

Professor Ke Lu (B. Sc. in materials science and engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, 1985; PhD in MSE, Institute of metal Research of CAS, 1990) is the President of the Liaoning Academy of Materials and a professor  of the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting professor in Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany) and in University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).

Professor Lu's icon scientific achievements include two parts: