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Professor Y. C. Fung, Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is the recipient of the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize of 2007.
The Russ Prize is presented biannually to an outstanding candidate in the field of bioengineering who has made significant contributions to improving the human condition through research, development, teaching, or management. The recipient receives a $500,000 cash award and an engraved gold medallion.
Medical News Today cites Prof. Fung as the "'father of modern biomechanics' for pioneering the application of quantitative and analytical engineering principles to the study of the human body and disease." His inventions have directly contributed to enhancing the recovery and functionality of injured soft tissue, and improving the effectiveness and longevity of prosthetic orthopedic devices. Today, a great many people who suffer from tissue trauma or burns benefit from his contribution to the development of artificial skin.
Prof. Fung joined UCSD to establish one of the first bioengineering programs in the country as early as 1966 and devoted himself to studying the mechanical aspects of the body after twenty years of making contributions in aeronautics.
He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech and holds memberships in several prestigious institutes such as the US National Academy of Science, Academia Sinica, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine of NAS, and National Academy of Engineering.
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At 31, Professor Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles is one of the youngest mathematicians to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal - often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Awarded once every 4 years by the International Mathematical Union, the Fields Medal recognizes Professor Tao for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory. The award was presented in Madrid on August 22, 2006 by Spain's King Juan Carlos I at a congress attended by 4000 international mathematicians.
Professor Tao's peers know him as a "supreme problem-solver" who has made breakthroughs in research on wave motion and prime numbers - which have applications in fiber optics and information security. Discover magazine also praised Tao's research on prime numbers, which he conducted with Ben Green, a professor of mathematics at the University of Bristol in England, as one of the 100 most important discoveries in science for 2004.
The Australian-born child prodigy in mathematics was only 13 years old when he won the gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He graduated from Flinders University when he was 16 and received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University when he was 21. At UCLA, he is part of the Analysis group and actively maintains a Harmonic Analysis web site as well as a Harmonics Mailing List. With work spanning across several mathematical fields, he has written over 80 research papers in areas ranging from harmonic analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations, and combinatorics. His thesis, "Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis" appears in the review volume Topics in Analysis and its Applications edited by R Coifman (Yale University).
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