1.Chris Budd, University of Bath, UK

Chris Budd is a British applied mathematician known for his work in nonlinear differential equations and their applications in industry. He is currently a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath, and also holds positions at Gresham College and the Royal Institution. He is recognized for his contributions to public understanding of science and mathematics, and for his involvement in knowledge exchange between academia and industry.
Page: https://people.bath.ac.uk/mascjb/

2. Bui Hai Hung, Qualcomm Vietnam

Bui Hai Hung is a Vietnamese mathematician-turned AI expert and the current leader of VinAI Research. He served as an assistant professor at Curtin University (2000–2003); and held an adjunct professorship at Monash University in Australia. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at SRI International’s AI Center (Silicon Valley), where he led the multi-institution CALO project - the foundation for what later became Apple’s Siri - coordinating teams from Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley. From late 2014 to early 2018, he was employed as a machine learning expert at Adobe Research. He joined Google DeepMind from early 2018 onward, contributing to ambitious projects like self-driving cars and Google Glass, with nearly 100 research publications and over 10 U.S. patents to his name. In 2019, Bui Hai Hung returned to Vietnam to become the founding CEO and research lead of VinAI Research, the AI arm of Vingroup. Under his leadership, VinAI emerged as the only Southeast Asian company in the global Top 20 AI research labs based on international publication metrics in ICML, NeurIPS, etc.
Page: https://sites.google.com/site/buihhung/

3. Ngô Bảo Châu, VIASM, Vietnam and University of Chicago, USA

Page: http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~ngo/nbc-homepage.html

4. Elaine Crooks, Swansea University, UK

Her main research area is the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations, particularly singular limits of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic PDE, asymptotic behaviour of reaction-diffusion systems, and front propagation and spreading speeds, motivated by applications such as switching properties of liquid crystals, phase transitions of materials, strongly competitive interactions and spatial segregation in population dynamics, and the characterization of the speed of spread of ecological invasions. An additional interest is the analysis of compensated convex transforms and their applications to geometric singularity detection, and, via a numerical implementation, the detection of features in images or data, removal of noise from images, identification of intersections between surfaces, etc.
Page: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/e.c.m.crooks/#bbq=on

5. Dao Hai Long, University of Kansas, USA

Dao Hai Long is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas (USA), specializing in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and algebraic K‑theory. He was affiliated with the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) as a Visiting Senior Researcher, with visits recorded in mid-2023 and again July–August 2025. His research spans topics in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and algebraic K‑theory. He has been active in international mathematical collaborations, likely participating in conferences such as those organized by VIASM. As a student, Dao Hai Long won two gold medals for Vietnam at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1994 and 1995—a rare feat noted by his high school, the VNU University of Science High School for the Gifted
Page: https://mathematics.ku.edu/people/hai-long-dao

6. Jens Marklof, LMS President, University of Bristol, UK

Jens Marklof’s research interests span diverse areas within pure and applied mathematics, with a focus on ergodic theory and dynamical systems, mathematical physics, and number theory. He is perhaps best known for his studies of the asymptotic distribution of quadratic forms and theta sums, the Berry-Tabor conjecture in quantum chaos, as well as the kinetic theory for particle transport in the Lorentz gas. He is the Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He is currently President of the London Mathematical Society (2023-25). He has received several prestigious honours for his work, including the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2010. In 2015, he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Page: https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/marklof-bio

7. Patrick Massot, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Patrick Massot is a professor at University Paris-Saclay in Orsay. He originally worked in symplectic topology. Since 2018, he became interested in formalized mathematics. Formalizing mathematics means encoding mathematical definitions, statements and proofs in a specialized computer software called a proof assistant. Proof assistants can check logical accuracy with super-human reliability. This allows to check mathematical proofs but also to enhance understanding and communication of mathematics. Together with Johan Commelin and Kevin Buzzard, Patrick Massot worked on the first project formalizing a really sophisticated mathematical definition: Scholze’s perfectoid spaces. He then proved, together with Floris van Doorn and Oliver Nash, that advanced geometry is also amenable to those techniques by formalizing Gromov’s convex integration theory and its application to Smale’s sphere eversion theorem. He is a maintainer of Mathlib, the mathematical library of Lean, the most commonly used proof assistant for mathematics. He also created several tools that are used in many formalization projects, especially the LeanBlueprint software.
Page: https://www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr/~patrick.massot/en/

8. Laura Monk, University of Bristol, UK

Laura Monk is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. Her research lies at the intersection of spectral geometry, random matrix theory, and quantum chaos, focusing on the spectral statistics of random hyperbolic surfaces. Dr. Monk completed her PhD in 2021 at the University of Strasbourg under the supervision of Prof. Nalini Anantharaman. She has since been a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn in the team of Prof. Ursula Hamenstädt and at the University of Bristol, working with Prof. Jens Marklof. She was awarded the Prize L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents France for Women in Science in 2021 and the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize in 2024, for her contributions to understanding random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus. Her work brings new probabilistic methods to a long-established field of pure mathematics, advancing our understanding of the relationship between the spectral theory of hyperbolic surfaces and their geometry.
Page: https://lauramonk.github.io/

9. Nguyen Phi Le, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Phi Le Nguyen currently serves as the acting director of the HUST Institute for AI Innovation and Societal Impact (AI4LIFE), and holds the position of associate professor at School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), School of Information and Communication Technology. She leads a research group comprising over 80 talented students focusing on research on theoretical AI and applying AI in environmental science, climate change and smart healthcare. With a portfolio of more than 130 articles published in esteemed journals and conferences such as ICML, Neurips, ICLR, EMNLP, IJICAI, Dr. Nguyen has garnered multiple best paper awards.
Page: https://soict.hust.edu.vn/en/ph-d-nguyen-phi-le.html

10. Tadashi Tokieda, Stanford University, USA

Tadashi Tokieda is a professor of mathematics at Stanford. He grew up in Japan as a painter, became a classical philologist (not to be confused with philosopher) in France and, after a PhD from Princeton in pure mathematics, has been an applied mathematician around the world. He is active in popularization at all levels, especially via the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the YouTube channel Numberphile; he gave/will give invited outreach lectures at three International Congresses of Mathematicians, in 2018, 2022, 2026.
Page: https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda