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Professor Tan Eng Chye is a mathematician and university administrator serving as the fifth President of the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 1 January 2018. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Mathematics from NUS in 1985 and a PhD in Mathematics from Yale University in 1989. His research interests include the representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, invariant theory, and algebraic combinatorics. In collaboration with Roger Howe, he co-authored the graduate-level textbook Non-Abelian Harmonic Analysis: Applications of SL(2,R), published in 1992 by Springer-Verlag.
Tan joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science in June 2003, a position he held until March 2007. From 2007 to 2017, he served as Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost. As President, he has overseen initiatives including the establishment of the College of Humanities and Sciences. He received the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam, Emas (Public Administration Medal, Gold) in 2014 and has been a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science since 2011. In 2018, he was awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton. In 2022, he was conferred the Knight of the French Order of the Legion of Honour. He has published more than twenty articles in internationally refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has served as President of the Singapore Mathematical Society (2001–2005) and the South East Asian Mathematical Society (2004–2005).
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