Tan Eng Chye

Tan Eng Chye is Professor of Mathematics, Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He graduated from (NUS) with his BSc (1st Class Honours) in 1985 and completed his MSc and PhD at Yale University in 1987 and 1989 respectively.

Tan Eng Chye joined NUS’ Department of Mathematics as a Senior Tutor in 1985, eventually becoming the Department's Deputy Head in 1999. In June 2003, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science, a post he held till March 2007. Today, he is NUS’ Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost. His responsibilities are wide-ranging, from overseeing NUS Deans and their faculties/schools to being responsible for the appointment, promotion and tenure process of academic staff.

Tan Eng Chye's research interests are Representation Theory of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Invariant theory and Algebraic combinatorics. In collaboration with Roger Howe, he has written a well-known graduate-level textbook on non-Abelian harmonic analysis and contributed to several subjects in representation theory including degenerate principal series representations and branching rules. He has also been active in promoting mathematics, having established the Singapore Mathematical Society Enrichment Programmes in 1994, revamped the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad in 1995 to allow more participation from students, and initiated a series of project teaching workshops for teachers in 1998. He served as President of the Singapore Mathematical Society from 2001 to 2005 and President of the South East Asian Mathematical Society from 2004 to 2005.

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