Fang Kaitai

[1][2][3] The Hong Kong Baptist University honored Professor Fang with the President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work in 2001.

[2] His doctoral supervisor was Pao-Lu Hsu, who suggested that Fang provide a multivariate generalization and correction of a univariate result, which had been given an incomplete proof in a Russian paper.

Unfortunately, this paper remained unpublished for 19 years because the Cultural Revolution destroyed academic publishing in China.

[7][16] One of Generalized multivariate analysis's innovations was its extensive use of the multilinear algebra, particularly of the Kronecker product and of vectorization, according to Kollo and von Rosen.

[18] Fang and Zhang's Generalized multivariate analysis was honored as a "most excellent book in China"[9] by the Government Information and Publication Administration.

[19][20][21] Fang recognized that high-dimensional combinatorial designs, which had been used for numerical integration on the unit cube by Hua Luogeng and Wang Yuan, could be used to study interaction, for example, in factorial experiments and response surface methodology.

Fang has contributed to the theory of elliptical distributions, like bivariate normal distribution (pictured) , which have elliptical contours.