Duong Hong Phong


Duong Hong Phong is an American mathematician of Vietnamese origin. He is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for his research on complex analysis, partial differential equations, string theory and complex geometry.

Education and career

After graduating from Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Saigon, Phong attended a university year at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland and then went to the United States as an undergraduate and then a graduate student at Princeton University.
In 1977, he defended his dissertation entitled "On Hölder and Lp Estimates for the Conjugate Partial Equation on Strongly Pseudo-Convex Domains" under the direction of Elias Stein.
For the academic year 1977–1978 Phong was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
In 1994 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Zurich. He was the fifth Vietnamese to receive the honor.
In 2009 Phong was awarded the Stefan Bergman Prize for his research on the operators involved in the Neumann d-bar problem and on pseudo-differential operators.

Selected publications