Ching-Li Chai

{{short description|Taiwanese mathematician}} '''Ching-Li Chai''' ({{zh|t=翟敬立|p=Dí Jìnglì}}; 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.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|23857}}</ref> Chai was the Francis J. Carey Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2012.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ching-Li Chai |url=https://www.math.upenn.edu/people/ching-li-chai |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Carey Chair & other endowed and term chairs |url=https://www.math.upenn.edu/about/department-history/carey-other-chairs |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> He was elected to membership of Academia Sinica in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ching-Li Chai |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=609&_lang=en |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=Academia Sinica}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chai, Ching-li}} Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians Category:21st-century Taiwanese mathematicians Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Category:Taiwanese expatriates in the United States Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty Category:Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania Category:Members of Academia Sinica