Jia Rongqing


Jia Rongqing is a Canadian mathematician of Chinese origin who is a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta researching approximation theory and wavelet analysis.

Life

He was an undergraduate student at the Hangzhou University in China and He then went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and undertook M.Sc and a Ph.D work under the supervision of Clifford Taubes; but he did not complete it when interrupted by his obligatory alternative service in Germany. He received his Ph.D. at Bochum in 1984, under the supervision of Carl-Wilhelm de Boor.
He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.

Selected publications