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On October 27, 2025, the 10th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM 2025) officially announced the list of award recipients.The inaugural ICCM Hua Luogeng Award was jointly awarded to Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, Director of the Shenzhen Research  Institute of Big Data and Vice President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, together with Professor Shu Chi-Wang of Brown University. Professor Luo is internationally renowned for his research contributions in optimization, big data, signal processing, and wireless communications, with significant achievements in related applications.

The Hua Luogeng Award was first presented at the ICCM 2025 congress, ranking alongside the Shiing-Shen Chern Award and the Chia-Chiao Lin Award as one of the three major ICCM prizes. Established in memory of Professor Hua Luogeng, who is revered as the "Father of Modern Chinese Mathematics" and brought international prestige to Chinese mathematics, this award aims to recognize mathematicians of Chinese descent over the age of 45 who have made pioneering contributions across various fields.

Notably, this year’s ICCM awards were highly competitive. All recipients have made outstanding contributions of international impact in their respective research areas, ranging from already internationally renowned senior scholars to young mathematicians who have achieved major breakthroughs on frontier problems. This fully demonstrates the exceptional strength and growing global influence of Chinese mathematicians.

The ICCM Gold Medal in Mathematics was awarded to Professor Wang Hong of New York University, who has held a tenured professorship at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in France since September 2025. In recent years, she has drawn global academic attention for her breakthrough work on classical problems such as the Kakeya conjecture. Another ICCM Gold Medalist, Professor Deng Yu of the University of Chicago, together with collaborators, successfully solved the "narrow Hilbert's sixth problem," a long-standing challenge in the axiomatization of physics. Professor Yuan Xinyi of the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research at Peking University also received the Gold Medal; his research focuses on number theory. The Silver Medalists—Professor Bao Huanchen of the National University of Singapore, Professor Jin Bangti of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Wang Kelei of Wuhan University, Professor Xu Zhouli of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor Zhu Yihang of Tsinghua University—have each achieved outstanding results in fields such as algebraic topology and analytic number theory, highlighting the exceptional promise of the new generation of Chinese mathematicians.

The Shiing-Shen Chern Award was presented to Professor Zhai Jingli of the University of Pennsylvania, a leading figure in arithmetic geometry, and jointly to Professor Fu Jixiang of Fudan University, n recognition of his lifelong dedication to and contributions to the mathematical sciences. The inaugural Hua Luogeng Award was received by Professor Shu Chi-Wang of Brown University and Professor Luo Zhiquan of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Professor Shu is known for the ENO/WENO schemes he developed in computational fluid dynamics, which have become standard tools in the field with profound academic influence. Professor Luo Zhiquan has made notable achievements in optimization theory and communications network applications. The first-ever Chia-Chiao Lin Award was given to Professor E Weinan of Peking University for his pioneering contributions in applied computation and big data. The Wilfried Schmid International Cooperation Award was won by Fields Medalist Professor Caucher Birkar of Tsinghua University, while the John Coates International Cooperation Award was granted to Fields Medalist Professor Andrei Okounkov of Columbia University. The ICCM Mathematics Contribution Award was presented to Professor Xin Zhouping of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to and advancement of mathematical science. The congress also announced the Best Paper Award winners, selecting 35 outstanding papers across multiple mathematical fields, including number theory, applied mathematics and statistics, algebra, geometry and topology, and analysis. The research achievements of numerous Chinese mathematicians and their collaborators were honored.