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Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, 1980 Thesis advisor: Shing-Tung Yau (Tsinghua University, Harvard University)
- ScB. in Mathematics, summa cum laude , Brown University, 1976
Employment
- 1993 – Professor of Mathematics, Michigan State University.
- 2001-2002 Member, Institute for Advanced Study.
- 1988-1993 Associate Professor of Mathematics, Michigan State University.
- 1984-1988 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis University.
- 1980-1984 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Benjamin Pierce Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University.
Awards & Honors
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (2001–2002)
- Frame Teaching Award, MSU Mathematics Department (1998, 2014)
- Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, Harvard University (1982)
Ph.D. Students
- 1994 — Liviu Nicolaescu (Professor, Notre Dame University)
- 1996 — Eleny–Nicoleta Ionel (Professor, Stanford University)
- 2001 — Junho Lee (Associate Professor, University of Central Florida)
- 2005 — Jens Von Bergmann (MountainMath)
- 2011 — Kwangho Choi (Lecturer, Dongguk University, Korea)
- 2014 — Manousos Maridakis (Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 2016 — Ákos Nagy (Senior Quantum Algorithm Research Scientist at BEIT)
- 2021 — Woongbae Park (Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester)
- 2023 — Alan (Zhe) Zhang
- 2025 — Keshav Sutrave.