Chi Hong Chow

Chi Hong Chow is a mathematician working in geometric representation theory, mirror symmetry, Schubert calculus and symplectic topology, with a focus on flag varieties, quantum cohomology and Fukaya categories. He is currently a Patricia Caldwell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech (since Aug 2025), after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn (2024-2025) and two years as an independent researcher. He earned his Ph.D. (2022), M.Phil. (2018) and B.S. (2015) in Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where his doctoral advisor was Naichung Conan Leung. As a secondary-school student he represented Hong Kong at the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a bronze medal in 2011 and a silver medal in 2012.

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• Current role is Patricia Caldwell Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech since Aug 2025, after a Max Planck Institute for Mathematics postdoc (Aug 2024-Jul 2025) and a two-year independent-researcher gap - the trajectory reads as a math researcher who went fully self-directed before landing a named postdoc.Aug 2025
• Represented Hong Kong at the IMO in both 2011 (bronze, rank 202, 18 points) and 2012 (silver, rank 112, 21 points) - an unusual repeat IMO medalist from Hong Kong, which is the anchor of this task.2012
• Public contact email [contact omitted] listed at the top of his own CV, making him directly reachable.
• Published 'Peterson-Lam-Shimozono's theorem is an affine analogue of quantum Chevalley formula' in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2025), a strong journal placement early in his postdoc.2025
• Co-organizes the Bonn Symplectic Geometry Seminar (2024-2025) and referees for Advances in Mathematics and Mathematische Zeitschrift, showing he is already embedded in the symplectic-geometry service network.2024
• Whole academic lineage sits at CUHK: B.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. all there, both theses advised by Naichung Conan Leung, clustering him in CUHK's geometry/mirror-symmetry group.2022
• Gave invited seminar talks across 2021-2025 (Symplectic Zoominar, MPIM Oberseminar, Schubert Seminar, MIT/UMich seminars), indicating an active international talk circuit.2025
• His work is catalogued on nLab under quantum cohomology of flag varieties, placing him in the small community around Peterson's isomorphism and the quantum Chevalley formula.