Award-winning mathematician Professor Zhong Xiao has departed Finland after nearly three decades, bringing his foundational research critical to artificial intelligence back to China.
Zhong, a fellow of Finland’s Academy of Science and Humanities and recent recipient of its prestigious Väisälä Prize, joined Sun Yat-sen University full-time in April, according to information on the university’s website.
His groundbreaking work on the Poincaré inequality provides essential mathematical underpinnings for modern machine learning algorithms.
Zhong was born in Changsha, Hunan province. In 1985, he was admitted to the top university, the University of Science and Technology of China.
In 1995, he graduated with a master’s degree from the Wuhan Institute of Mathematics and Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After working for one year, he went abroad in 1996 to study at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland under the mentorship of the renowned Finnish mathematician Tero Kilpeläinen.
