Sun-Yung Alice Chang

Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Sun-Yung Alice Chang at Oberwolfach 2009
Born	1948 Xian, China
Other names	Alice Chang
Alma mater	B.S., National Taiwan University, 1970; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1974
Occupation	Mathematician, professor
Employer	University of California, Los Angeles 1980, Princeton University 1998-
Spouse(s)	Paul C. Yang

Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948) is a Chinese American mathematician specializing in aspects of mathematical analysis ranging from harmonic analysis and partial differential equations to differential geometry. She is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.

Chang was born in Xian, China in 1948. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from National Taiwan University, and her doctorate in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Chang wrote her thesis on the study of bounded analytic functions. Chang became a full professor at UCLA in 1980, moving to Princeton in 1998.

Chang’s research interests include the study of geometric types of nonlinear partial differential equations and problems in isospectral geometry. Working with her husband Paul Yang and others, she produced contributions to differential equations in relation to geometry and topology.

She teaches at Princeton University as of 1998. Before that, she held visiting positions at University of California-Berkeley; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.; and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. She will be serving at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as visiting professor in 2015.