Hongkai Zhao is a Chinese mathematician and Ruth F. DeVarney Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Duke University.
He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.
From 1996 to 1998 Zhao was a Gábor Szegő Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Stanford University and then got promoted to Research Associate which he kept till 1999.
[3] Hongkai Zhao received Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2002 and the Feng Kang Prize[4] in Scientific Computing in 2007.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for seminal contributions to scientific computation, numerical analysis, and applications in science and engineering".