Qiang Du holds the Fu Foundation Professorship in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Applied Sciences and Engineering in the city of New York. Prior to moving to Columbia, he was the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and a Professor of Materials Science at the 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. A Fellow of SIAM, AMS, and AAAS, he now serves as the EIC of the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics and the founding co-EIC of Communications of the American Mathematical Society. Some of the recognitions for his work include Frame Faculty Teaching Award, Feng Kang Prize, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, SIAM Review SIGEST Paper Award, Gordon Bell Prize Finalist, USACM Thomas J.R. Hughes Medal, and ICBS Frontier of Science Award. He was also an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).