Professor Dong Fengming received his MSc (Mathematics) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988 and his PhD (Mathematics) from National University of Singapore in 1997. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Massey University in New Zealand from 1998 to 2000 and at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2000 to 2001. In 2001, he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and to Full Professor in 2024.

Professor Dong’s research interests are in the area of graph theory, including topics in Graph-functions (chromatic polynomials, DP-color functions, flow polynomials, matching polynomials, independence polynomials, Tutte polynomials, Jones polynomials, etc), matchings, spanning trees, Parking functions, hypergraphs, dominations, plane or 1-plane graphs, anti-Ramsey numbers, etc. He has successfully collaborated with many researchers for more than 20 years and his achievement was highly evaluated by his peers. He has published around 100 high-quality articles in international journals, of which around 70 appeared in Tier 1 journals. He has also co-authored four textbooks and a chapter in a CRC handbook. He is also the main author in more than 60% of his publications. The full list of his publications can be found from the website https://math.nie.edu.sg/fmdong/Research/Publications-Dong.htm .

Professor Dong was recognized for his contribution to the study of chromatic polynomials. He has proven several open conjectures in graph theory. In 2000, he independently proved the Shameful conjecture on chromatic polynomials. An introduction to this conjecture was provided in a mathematics blog https://symomega.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/the-shameful-conjecture by Professor Gordon Royle from the University of Western Australia. Largely because of this work, he was invited as the only research fellow from Asia to attend the research program ``Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics” in the University of Cambridge in 2008. In 2015, he was invited to contribute a chapter (the only one written by Asian professors) of a CRC handbook ``The Handbook on the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics”.