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Po Lam Yung is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University. He specializes in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Yung obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2010, advised by Elias M. Stein. Prior to that, he earned an M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2005, advised by Ka-Sing Lau, and a B.Sc. from CUHK in 2003. His career includes positions as Hill Assistant Professor at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2013, Titchmarsh Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2013 to 2014, Assistant Professor at CUHK from 2014 to 2020, Senior Lecturer at ANU from 2019 to 2021, Associate Professor at CUHK from 2020 to 2021, and Adjunct Professor at CUHK from 2022 to 2025. Yung has received numerous awards, including the Antonio Ambrosetti Medal from SISSA in 2021 for outstanding contributions to nonlinear analysis, the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2020, the Distinguished Paper Award from the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in 2018, the Early Career Award from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong in 2015, and the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award from CUHK Faculty of Science in 2016. Earlier honors include the New World Mathematics Silver Award for his master's thesis in 2007, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships in 2004 and 2005, and the Dr. Chao Yong Chi-Hsing Scholarship in Mathematics in 2003.

Yung's research encompasses singular integrals, Sobolev embeddings, time-frequency analysis, oscillatory integrals, and Fourier decoupling, with applications to partial differential equations, several complex variables, Cauchy-Riemann geometry, and analytic number theory. Notable contributions include sharpening embeddings of critical Sobolev spaces and advancing results on cancelling L1 estimates and pseudodifferential calculus. Key publications feature 'Families of functionals representing Sobolev norms' (with H. Brezis, A. Seeger, and J. Van Schaftingen, Analysis & PDE, 2024), 'Sobolev spaces revisited' (with H. Brezis, A. Seeger, and J. Van Schaftingen, Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e Applicazioni, 2022), 'A decoupling interpretation of an old argument for Vinogradov’s Mean Value Theorem' (with B. Cook et al., Mathematika, 2024), and 'On Polynomial Carleson operators along quadratic hypersurfaces' (with T.C. Anderson et al., J. Geom. Anal., 2024). He serves on the editorial board of Pseudo-Differential Operators: Theory and Applications by Birkhäuser and has refereed for leading journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Duke Mathematical Journal, and Journal of Functional Analysis. Yung has supervised multiple graduate students, including PhD candidate Wenqi Zhang at ANU, and organized special sessions in harmonic analysis at conferences like the 9th Pacific Rim Conference in Mathematics.