Center of Quantum Algebra, South China University of Technology, China and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, USA.

Naihuan Jing, Ph.D. from Yale, has worked at the IAS in Princeton, University of Michigan and University of Kansas before joining North Carolina State University, where he is a Professor. He was a recipient of Fulbright Scholarship, Humboldt Research Award and Cheung Kong Chair Professorship. He was Distinguished Chair Professor at South China University of Technology, and visiting professors to MSRI Berkeley, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics in Bonn and Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. His main research areas are quantum groups, representation theory, and quantum computation.