Prof. Yuan Yaxiang, born in Zixing City, Hunan, received his master degree from the CAS, and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1986. He won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in Mathematics, and the 1st Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing. He was elected member of the US Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and CAS academician, in 2011; member of American Mathematical Society in 2012; corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2014; chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, and TWAS academician, in 2015; and, vice president of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in 2016.