Chong Chi Tat


Chong Chi Tat is University Professor and Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of recursion/computability theory.

Academic career

Professor Chong received his BSc from Iowa State University and his PhD from Yale University. He began his career in University of Singapore, the predecessor of the National University of Singapore, as a lecturer in 1974. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor. Professor Chong held many administrative leadership positions including Vice Dean of Science ; Head, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science ; Deputy Vice Chancellor, Deputy President and Provost ; and Head, Department of Mathematics. In 2004, Professor Chong was named the second University Professor of NUS, the highest honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members.

Selected works

Chong received the Public Administration Medal, in Singapore's National Day Awards 2002. He has been a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science since 2011.