The National Center forTheoretical Sciences Mathematics Division (NCTS) is pleased to announce that Prof. Hao-Chung Cheng of National Taiwan University and Prof. Shih-Yu Chen of National Tsing Hua University and are recipients of the 2025 Wu Ta-You Memorial Award of the National Council of Science and Technology.

Prof. Cheng was a recipient of the NCTS Young Theoretical Scientist Award in 2023. His research interest includes quantum information processing, quantum communication, and matrix analysis. Prof. Chen is a domestic Ph.D who has been trained and supported through the NCTS program Number theory and representation theory. His research area is algebraic number theory with emphasis on arithmetic of special L-values. He has made important contribution to Deligne’s conjecture on critical L-values for symmetric powers of elliptic modular forms. The NCTS wishes to take this opportunity to congratulate them again on their achievements.