Ngô Bảo Châu

Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Hong Kong, born on 28 June 1972 in Hanoi, who is best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal. He won two International Mathematical Olympiad gold medals, the first with a perfect score, studied in France at the École Normale Supérieure and obtained a PhD in 1997 from the Université Paris-Sud under the supervision of Gérard Laumon. He proved the fundamental lemma for unitary groups in joint work with Laumon, became a professor at Paris-Sud in 2005, joined the University of Chicago in 2010, and since 2011 has been scientific director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.