Shing-Tung Yau
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1971
Dissertation:
On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-positive Curvature
Advisor 1: Shiing-Shen Chern
Advisor 2: H. Blaine (Herbert) Lawson, Jr.
Students:
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nash, John | Stanford University | 1976 | |
| Schoen, Richard | Stanford University | 1977 | 215 |
| Parker, Thomas | Stanford University | 1980 | 13 |
| Treibergs, Andrejs | Stanford University | 1980 | 2 |
| Klotz, Richard | Stanford University | 1982 | |
| Bando, Shigetoshi | Princeton University | 1983 | |
| Bartnik, Robert | Princeton University | 1983 | 6 |
| Saper, Leslie | Princeton University | 1984 | 5 |
| Stern, Mark | Princeton University | 1984 | 6 |
| Cao, Huai-Dong | Princeton University | 1986 | 12 |
| Chow, Bennett | Princeton University | 1986 | 28 |
| Freire, Alex | Princeton University | 1988 | 2 |
| Tian, Gang | Harvard University | 1988 | 113 |
| Li, Jun | Harvard University | 1989 | 10 |
| Lin, Tzuemn-Renn | University of California, San Diego | 1989 | |
| Wang, Wen-Xiang | Princeton University | 1989 | |
| Zheng, Fangyang | Harvard University | 1989 | 9 |
| Dong, Rui-Tao | University of California, San Diego | 1990 | |
| Lu, Steven | Harvard University | 1990 | 1 |
| Shi, Wan-Xiong | Harvard University | 1990 | |
| Sung, Wing-Wah | Brandeis University | 1990 | |
| Ji, Lizhen | Northeastern University | 1991 | 5 |
| Kao, Shu-Jung | Brandeis University | 1991 | |
| Ong, Ping-Zen | University of California, San Diego | 1991 | |
| Leung, Nai-Chung | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1993 | 22 |
| Liu, Kefeng | Harvard University | 1993 | 22 |
| Ruan, Wei-Dong | Harvard University | 1995 | |
| Li, Tian-Jun | Brandeis University | 1996 | 15 |
| Liu, Ai-Ko | Harvard University | 1996 | |
| Zhang, Xiao | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 1996 | |
| Luo, Huazhang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1998 | |
| Wang, Chin-Lung | Harvard University | 1998 | 2 |
| Wang, Mu-Tao | Harvard University | 1998 | 10 |
| Doran, Charles | Harvard University | 1999 | 16 |
| Hsu, Shu-Yu | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 1999 | |
| Loftin, John | Harvard University | 1999 | |
| Taylor, Christine | Harvard University | 2000 | |
| Tsui, Mao-Pei | Brandeis University | 2000 | 1 |
| Zipser, Nina | Harvard University | 2000 | |
| Dong, Xinhan | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 2002 | |
| Liu, Chiu-Chu | Harvard University | 2002 | 6 |
| Wang, Xiaowei | Brandeis University | 2002 | 2 |
| Chen, Bing-Long | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 2003 | |
| Chen, Jiun-Cheng | Harvard University | 2003 | |
| Cheng, Hsiao-Bing | Harvard University | 2003 | |
| Cheng, Hsiao-Bing | Harvard University | 2003 | |
| Gu, Xianfeng | Harvard University | 2003 | 1 |
| Karigiannis, Spiro | Harvard University | 2003 | 5 |
| Kong, Shengli | Northeastern University | 2003 | |
| Luo, Wei | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2003 | |
| Zhang, Yi | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 2003 | |
| Lee, Edward | Harvard University | 2004 | |
| Marian, Alina | Harvard University | 2004 | 2 |
| Wu, Damin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2005 | 2 |
| Sheng, Mao | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 2006 | 2 |
| Wu, Chun-Chun | Harvard University | 2006 | |
| Yu, Jeng-daw | Harvard University | 2006 | |
| Dai, Junfei | Zhejiang University | 2007 | |
| Iacovino, Vito | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008 | |
| Tievsky, Aaron | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008 | |
| Chi, Chen-Yu | Harvard University | 2009 | |
| Tosatti, Valentino | Harvard University | 2009 | 2 |
| Chen, Po-Ning | Harvard University | 2011 | 1 |
| Chuan, Ming-Tao | Harvard University | 2011 | |
| Li, Si | Harvard University | 2011 | 3 |
| Lu, Wenxuan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2011 | |
| Song, Ruifang | Harvard University | 2011 | |
| Li, Yi | Harvard University | 2012 | |
| Lin, Yu-Shen | Harvard University | 2013 | 1 |
| Zhou, Jie | Harvard University | 2014 | |
| Fei, Teng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2016 | |
| Smillie, Peter | Harvard University | 2018 | |
| Yu, Chenglong | Harvard University | 2018 | |
| Zhu, Jonathan | Harvard University | 2018 | |
| Fan, Yu-Wei | Harvard University | 2019 |
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