Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (simplified Chinese: 刘秋菊; traditional Chinese: 劉秋菊; pinyin: Liú Qiūjú; born 15 December 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.[1]

Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
劉秋菊
Born (1974-12-15) 15 December 1974 (age 49)
Alma materNational Taiwan University (BS 1996)
Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002)
AwardsMorningside Silver Medal (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Northwestern University
Columbia University
Thesis Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions  (2002)
Doctoral advisorShing-Tung Yau
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese劉秋菊
Simplified Chinese刘秋菊
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Qiūjú
Bopomofoㄌㄧㄡˊ   ㄑㄧㄡ   ㄐㄩˊ
Wade–GilesLiu Ch'iu-chü

Education

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Liu graduated from National Taiwan University in 1996, and earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.[1][2]

Career

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After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.[1]

Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007.[1] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[1] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

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