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Short Vita

Education

• PhD in Mathematics, SUNY at StonyBrook (1989).
  Thesis advisor: Detlef Gromoll
• B.S. in Mathematics, Zhejiang University, China (1985)

Employment

• Distinguished Professor, UC Santa Barbra , (2024--)
• Chern Professor, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, California (Fall 2024) (on leave from UCSB)
• Professor, UC Santa Barbra , (2002-2024)
• Eisenbud Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California (Spring 2016) (on leave from UCSB)
• Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbra, (1996-2002)
• Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbra (1992-1996)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Los Angeles, (1995--3/1996) (on leave from UCSB)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California (9/1993-12/93) (on leave from UCSB)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, (1991-1992)
• C. L. E. Moore Instructor, MIT (1989-1991)

Honors

• 2014 Class of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  
• Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, 1988--89
  
• Continuous NSF Support 1994-2027

Ph. D. students

• See Math Genealogy