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Roderick Sue-Cheun Wong
Roderick S. C. Wong, born in Shanghai, China in 1944, joined the City University of Hong Kong in early 1994 as Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics. In 1995, he led the effort for the establishment of the Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences and was appointed as Director of the Centre. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering from 1998 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. In 2006, he was appointed as the University's Vice-President (Research)/Dean of Graduate Studies.
The honors bestowed on Prof. Wong include the Killam Research Fellowship (1984) from the Canada Council, and the Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research (1984) from the University of Manitoba. Prof. Wong is holding the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, an honour he obtained in 1993 through election. In 2001, he was elected to the Academy of Science of Turin (Italy) as a foreign member. In 2004, he was awarded the Chevalier dans I'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur.
Prof. Wong has published over 100 papers in international journals and is serving on the Editorial Board of ten journals. He is the author of the book Asymptotic Approximations of Integrals, published by Academic Press (1989) and reprinted by SIAM in its Classics in Applied Mathematics Series (2001).
Prof. Wong is a coauthor of the following DLMF chapters