Prof Leung Pui Fai, Fred Awarded Honorary Fellowship 2020

The Faculty of Science congratulates Associate Professor LEUNG Pui Fai, Fred from NUS’ Department of Mathematics, who was awarded the Honorary Fellowship in July 2020.

The Honorary Fellowship recognises retired Associate Professors for their positive contributions at the University and / or Faculty level.

Over an illustrious career at NUS spanning 38 years, Prof Leung contributed significantly to the body of knowledge in differential geometry, including understanding of the relationships between the metric and the topological properties of compact minimal submanifolds in a sphere, complete non-compact submanifolds in an Euclidean space and eigenvalue estimates for complete minimal submanifolds in a hyperbolic space.  

A highly versatile and committed educator, Prof Leung was part of a team of Mathematics teaching staff who developed teaching content and set assessment materials for the Engineering Mathematics module from 2002 to 2017, for first year Engineering students. He also taught Advanced Calculus for Arts and Social Sciences students, Real Analysis for Business students and Calculus for Computing students. He also supervised 16 Honours projects.

Prof Leung served on the Honours Programme Committee and the Student Advisory Committee, and was the Department’s Student Exchange Programme representative from 2013 to 2017. He also played a role in providing youths early exposure to research and scientific advances, to nurture their interest in science, under the Ministry of Education’s Science Mentorship Programme.

As a Member of the Singapore Mathematical Society, Prof Leung contributed actively to the society’s mathematical outreach activities to strengthen mathematical education, and foster appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and daily life.

Dean of Science Prof SUN Yeneng said, “My warm congratulations to Fred! We are very grateful to him for his many contributions in teaching and research, and for his service to the Faculty and the Department. I wish Fred all the best as he moves on to the next chapter in life.”  

Prof Leung obtained his basic degree in mathematics from the University of Hong Kong (1975), Masters from York University, Canada (1977), and M.Sc. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He received the National Day Long Service Award (2009) in recognition of his many years of contributions to education.  

Prof Leung said, “I am honoured to receive the Fellowship. I wish to thank my friends, colleagues and all the staff in the Department of Mathematics for their friendship, encouragement and support over the years.” Prof Leung plans to live a simple life and spend more time with his family.