Chi-Kwong Fok is an Assistant Professor in Pure Mathematics at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Prior to joining XJTLU, he was an assistant professor of practice at New York University Shanghai, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Auckland, a research associate at the University of Adelaide, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan. Dr Foks research involves studying spaces with physical implications and desirable symmetries using machinery from algebraic topology and K-theory.

Algebraic topology

K-theory

Lie groups

Mathematical physics

Assistant Professor in Pure Mathematics, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2023-present

Instructor, Vancouver Island University, January-May, 2023

Assistant Professor of Practice in Mathematics, New York University Shanghai, 2020-2022

Lecturer in Mathematics, the University of Auckland, April-December, 2019

ARC Research Associate, Institute for Geometry and its Applications, the University of Adelaide, 2017-2019

Adjunct Assistant Professor, National Tsinghua University, February-July, 2016

Postdoctoral research fellow, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, 2014-2017

SURF 2024 (Lie groups, representation theory and symmetric polynomials)

MTH118 Analysis II

MTH117 Analysis I

MTH301 Final Year Project (introductory Lie theory)

Multivariable Calculus/Calculus, NYU Shanghai

Differential Geometry, NYU Shanghai

Final Year Project-Schubert calculus, NYU Shanghai

Independent Study-Differential forms and deRham cohomology, NYU Shanghai

Complex Analysis (graduate level), University of Auckland

Real and Complex Calculus, University of Auckland

Best oral presentation award, the 5th International Conference on Symmetry, May 2025