By Reico Wong

A NANYANG Technological University's don has won a scientific computing prize, becoming one of only three scientists in the world to receive this prestigious award given by China this year.

NTU said on Thursday that Associate Professor Tai Xue-Cheng, from its School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the eighth Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing by China, which honours Chinese scientists in China and abroad for significant contributions biennially.

He has been working on numerical analysis and computational mathematics, specifically image processing, in recent years.

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