Shing-Tung Yau
Get notified whenever this star has news
Browse by day
Who is this?
Shing-Tung Yau (; Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; Jyutping: jau1 sing4 tung4; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua. Yau was born in Shantou in 1949, moved to British Hong Kong at a young age, and then moved to the United Stat
What happened recently
How a Vietnamese village schoolboy ends up working with Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau at China's Tsinghua
Elon Musk's Chief AI Brain Battles Lyme Disease! Former Student of Shing-Tung Yau, Yang Ge Announces Resignation
Shing-Tung Yau: World Laureates Forum a venue for profound exchanges between top scientists
Open Questions | Shing-Tung Yau on why China needs to ‘chart its own path’ for tech independence
Open Questions | China ‘still far behind’ US in maths prowess but is on the rise: Shing
'%2F%3E%3Ctext%20x%3D'100'%20y%3D'130'%20font-family%3D'-apple-system%2Csans-serif'%20font-size%3D'80'%20font-weight%3D'900'%20fill%3D'white'%20text-anchor%3D'middle'%3E%E9%AB%98%E5%96%84%3C%2Ftext%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E){kind=small}
'%2F%3E%3Ctext%20x%3D'100'%20y%3D'130'%20font-family%3D'-apple-system%2Csans-serif'%20font-size%3D'80'%20font-weight%3D'900'%20fill%3D'white'%20text-anchor%3D'middle'%3EMY%3C%2Ftext%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E){kind=small}
'%2F%3E%3Ctext%20x%3D'100'%20y%3D'130'%20font-family%3D'-apple-system%2Csans-serif'%20font-size%3D'80'%20font-weight%3D'900'%20fill%3D'white'%20text-anchor%3D'middle'%3E%ED%99%8D%ED%98%9C%3C%2Ftext%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E){kind=small}
'%2F%3E%3Ctext%20x%3D'100'%20y%3D'130'%20font-family%3D'-apple-system%2Csans-serif'%20font-size%3D'80'%20font-weight%3D'900'%20fill%3D'white'%20text-anchor%3D'middle'%3EFA%3C%2Ftext%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E){kind=small}
