Qiang Du (Chinese: 杜强), the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, is a Chinese mathematician and computational scientist.
Prior to moving to Columbia, he was the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics and Materials Sciences.
[2] His two most often cited papers are As of June 2018, 17 students had completed their Ph.D. degrees under Du's supervision.
Du was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2013 for "contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in material science, computational geometry, and biology.
[4] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in materials science, computational geometry, and biology".