Qiang Du holds the Fu Foundation Professorship in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York. Prior to joining Columbia in 2014, he was the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His honors include the Frame Faculty Teaching Award, Feng Kang Prize, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, USACM Thomas Hughes Medal, and ICBS Frontiers of Science Award. He is a Fellow of SIAM, AMS, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he was also an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (SIAP) and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the American Mathematical Society (CAMS).