Weiqing Gu

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Weiqing Gu is a Chinese-American mathematician who works as the Avery Professor of Mathematics and director of the mathematics clinic at Harvey Mudd College. Her research concerns differential geometry and Grassmann manifolds. [1] She has also worked with Harvey Mudd colleague Lisette de Pillis on the mathematical modeling of cancer. [2]

Gu began teaching mathematics at Shanghai Teachers University in 1980, earned a bachelor's degree there in 1984, and continued teaching there until 1987. [3] She began her graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma in 1988, but moved the following year to the University of Pennsylvania, [3] completing her Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Herman R. Gluck, a topologist who had been a student of Ralph Fox. [4] In 1996, she added a master's degree in computer science, also from the University of Pennsylvania, after which she joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Mathematics Faculty at HMC, archived from the original on 2017-06-06, retrieved 2015-09-04.
  2. ↑ "New Research Project: Curing Cancer With Mathematics" (PDF), Medical News Today, June 22, 2007, retrieved 2015-09-04.
  3. 1 2 3 Gu, Weiqing (2005), Curriculum vitae (long version) (PDF), retrieved 2015-09-04.
  4. ↑ Weiqing Gu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.


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