Ming-Jun Lai

{{short description|American mathematician}}

Ming-Jun Lai is an American mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia. His area of research is splines and their numerical analysis. He has published a text on splines called Splines Functions on Triangulations. He was born in Hangzhou, China.{{official website|http://www.math.uga.edu/~mjlai/}}

Lai received a B.Sc. from Hangzhou University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Texas A&M University in 1989.{{cite web|last=Lai|first=Ming-Jun|title=Curriculum vitae|url=https://www.math.uga.edu/sites/default/files/CVs/LaiCV2023.pdf|accessdate=2024-04-11}} His dissertation was entitled "On Construction of Bivariate and Trivariate Vertex Splines on Arbitrary Mixed Grid Partitions" and supervised by Charles K. Chui.{{MathGenealogy|17328}}