Tan Eng Chye
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Tan Eng Chye is the President of the National University of Singapore, a role he was appointed to on 1 January 2018. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from NUS in 1985 and a PhD from Yale University in 1989, and he joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985. His career at NUS included work as an educator and academic leader, and the university credits him as a pioneer architect of its current academic system and interdisciplinary educational approach, including initiatives such as the Special Programme in Science, University Scholars Programme, University Town Residential College Programme, Grade-free Year, and Technology-enhanced Education. He is also known for his research in representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, invariant theory, and algebraic combinatorics, and for co-authoring three mathematics books.
Updated 19 September 2026
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