About Ching-Li Chai
Born 1956. Ching-Li Chai is a Taiwanese mathematician and university teacher.
Ching-Li Chai (; born 12 June 1956) is a Taiwanese mathematician.
Career Chai graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 1978. He then earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1984. His doctoral thesis, Compactification of the Siegel Moduli Schemes, was completed under the supervision of David Mumford. Chai was the Francis J. Carey Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2012. He was elected to membership of Academia Sinica in 2010.
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