Ngaiming Mok

{{Western name order|Mok Ngaiming}}

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| birth_place = Hong Kong

Ancestral hometown: Dongguan city, Guangdong province, mainland China

| doctoral_advisor = Yum-Tong Siu

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| y = Mohk Ngaih-mìhng

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Ngaiming Mok ({{zh|c=莫毅明|p=Mò Yìmíng}}; born 1956) is a Hong Kong mathematician specializing in complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of Hong Kong.[http://hkumath.hku.hk/~nmok/ "Professor Ngaiming Mok"], Hong Kong University. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.

After graduating from St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong in 1975,{{cite news|url=http://news.takungpao.com.hk/hkol/topnews/2015-12/3250500.html|script-title=zh:'兩院'香港學者增至31席 莫毅明新入選中科院|trans-title=Number of Hong Kong scholars in the 'two academies' increases to 31; Mok Ngaiming elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences|newspaper=Ta Kung Pao|date=8 December 2015|accessdate=7 August 2017}} Mok studied at the University of Chicago and Yale University, obtaining his M.A. in Mathematics from Yale in 1978.[http://www.daao.hku.hk/ephku/en/Professorship-Detail/23-Edmund-And-Peggy-Tse-Professorship-In-Mathematics.html "Edmund and Peggy Tse Professorship in Mathematics"], HKU. Retrieved on 16 November 2016. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University under the guidance of Yum-Tong Siu.[https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=44547 "Ngaiming Mok"], Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved on 16 November 2016. He taught at Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Paris-Saclay before joining the faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1994. He has been the director of the University of Hong Kong's Institute of Mathematical Research since 1999.

The awards Mok has received include a Sloan Fellowship in 1984, the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Mathematics in 1985, and the Stefan Bergman Prize in 2009.[https://www.ams.org/notices/201104/rtx110400612p.pdf "Mathematics People"], American Mathematical Society. Retrieved on 16 November 2016. Mok was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich and served on the Fields Medal committee at the 2010 ICM in Hyderabad. He was on the editorial board of Inventiones Mathematicae from 2002 to 2014,[https://www.springer.com/mathematics/journal/222?detailsPage=editorialBoard "Inventiones Mathematicae"], Springer. Retrieved on 16 November 2016. and he is currently an editor of Mathematische Annalen.[https://www.springer.com/mathematics/journal/208?detailsPage=editorialBoard "Mathematische Annalen"], Springer. Retrieved on 16 November 2016.

He was elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Division of Mathematics and Physics) in 2015,{{Cite web|url=http://www.scifac.hku.hk/news/comm/prof-mok-cas-award|title=Faculty of Science, HKU -|website=www.scifac.hku.hk|access-date=2017-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152940/http://www.scifac.hku.hk/news/comm/prof-mok-cas-award|archive-date=2017-03-14|url-status=dead}} and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2019. {{Cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=AMS Fellows 2019|website=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2018-11-01}} In 2023, Mok became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}

Mok is a polyglot, being able to speak Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese), English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and more.