Horng-Tzer Yau (; born 1959 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. Yau joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He moved to Stanford in 2003, and then to Harvard University in 2005. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1987–88, 1991–92, and 2003, and was a distinguished visiting professor in 2013–14. According to William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, "Professor Yau is a leader in the fields of mathematical physics, ... who has introduced important tools and concepts to study probability, stochastic processes, nonequilibrium statistical physics, and quantum dynamics." Yau is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. Honors Simons Investigator Award Sloan Foundation Fellowship Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991 International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998 Henri Poincaré Prize, 2000 MacArthur Fellowship, 2000 Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 2001 Academician of the Academia Sinica, 2002 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the National Academy of Sciences Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012 Simons Investigator, 2012 Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Mathematical Physics the 2017 Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics & Physics References External links "Yau Travels Down The Road Less Taken," from the Harvard Gazette — archived at the Wayback Machine Seminar at Isaac Newton Institute 1959 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Mathematical physicists Taiwanese emigrants to the United States Princeton University alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty Stanford University faculty Harvard University faculty MacArthur Fellows Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Simons Investigator 20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians 20th-century Taiwanese physicists Members of Academia Sinica Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences