Ching-Li Chai
{{short description|Taiwanese mathematician}}
Ching-Li Chai ({{zh|t=翟敬立}}; born 12 June 1956) is a Taiwanese mathematician.
Career
Chai completed his doctoral thesis, Compactification of the Siegel Moduli Schemes, in 1984, under the supervision of David Mumford at Harvard University.{{MathGenealogy|23857}} Chai was the Francis J. Carey Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2012.{{cite news |title=Ching-Li Chai |url=https://www.math.upenn.edu/people/ching-li-chai |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}{{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}} He was elected to membership of Academia Sinica in 2010.{{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}}
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Category:20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians
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Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty
Category:Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
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