Hông Vân Lê is a senior scientist of the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She was the recipient of the Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1990, and the recipient of ICTP’s Majorana Prize in 1991. She works on Riemannian Geometry, Symplectic Topology, Representation Theory, Algebraic Topology, Information Geometry, and Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning.