On September 19, 2022, the official website of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) announced the recipients of six major awards: the Collatz Prize, the Lagrange Prize, the Maxwell Prize, the Pioneer Prize, the Su Buchin Prize, and the Industry Prize. Evian N. Wei, the former director and academician at Peking University, was honored with the ICIAM Maxwell Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to applied mathematics, particularly in the analysis and application of machine learning algorithms, multiscale modeling, rare event modeling, stochastic partial differential equations, among other areas. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place at the opening ceremony of the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023) in Tokyo, Japan, in August 2023.

E Weinan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, holds the position of Chair Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University. He serves as the Director of the Beijing Big Data Research Institute and the Director of the International Machine Learning Research Center at Peking University. Additionally, he was the ninth Director of the Computational Mathematics Branch of the Chinese Mathematical Society.

Dr. E obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, followed by a Master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989.

In 2022, he was invited to present a one-hour plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2022) and was also invited to deliver an opening keynote address at the 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022).

Throughout his career, Dr. E Weinan has received several prestigious awards, including the Collatz Prize from the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2003), the Kleinman Prize and von Karman Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in the United States. He was also honored with the Peter Henrici Prize jointly awarded by SIAM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 2019. In 2020, Dr. E received the ACM Gordon-Bell Prize for international high-performance computing. He is a founding Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a founding Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in the United States, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, and a founding Fellow of the China Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society.