| Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu | |||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 15 December 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Taiwan | ||||||||||||
| Field: | Mathematics | ||||||||||||
| Work Institutions: | Harvard University Northwestern University Columbia University | ||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University (BS 1996) Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002) | ||||||||||||
| Doctoral Advisor: | Shing-Tung Yau | ||||||||||||
| Prizes: | Morningside Silver Medal (2007) | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Title: | Moduli of J-Holomorphic Curves with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Year: | 2002 | ||||||||||||
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Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (; 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]
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.
After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.
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.[2]