Prof Ngaiming MOK is the Edmund and Peggy Tse Professor in Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics of the Department of Mathematics, and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Research of The University of Hong Kong.  He is also a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.

Professor Mok is a world-renowned mathematician dedicated to research on several complex variables, complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry.  He is well-known in solving difficult problems, proving theorems and developing theories.  Currently, Prof Mok is working on the interface of algebraic geometry, complex differential geometry and number theory.  He is also developing a differential-geometric theory of submanifolds of projective submanifolds uniruled by lines.  Professor Mok has been serving on the editorial boards of famous journals of mathematics and he has served as a member of the Fields Medal Committee in the International Congress of Mathematicians

Professor Mok’s outstanding achievements and contributions have earned him countless international recognition and honours, including the Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the US, the Croucher Senior Fellowship Award of Hong Kong, the State Natural Science Award (Class II) of China, and the Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society.  He was also elected Academician of The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Mok is a polyglot and has lectured on Mathematics around the world in English, Putonghua, Cantonese, French, German and Italian.