Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (Chinese: 丘成棟; pinyin: Qiū Chéngdòng; born 1952) is a Chinese-American mathematician.
Shing-Toung Yau was born in 1952 in British Hong Kong,[1] with his ancestral home in Jiaoling County, Guangdong, China.
[3][4] He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1976 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1982, and was a Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1977 to 1980.
[4] Among Yau's research interests are bioinformatics, complex algebraic geometry, singularities theory, and nonlinear filtering.
[5] He served as Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Control and Information and co-founded the Journal of Algebraic Geometry in 1991.