Bang-Yen Chen


Bang-Yen Chen is a Taiwanese mathematician who works mainly on differential geometry and related subjects. He was a University Distinguished Professor of Michigan State University from 1990 to 2012. After 2012 he became University Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

Biography

Bang-Yen Chen is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.S. from Tamkang University in 1965 and his M.Sc from National Tsing Hua University in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Notre Dame in 1970 under the supervision of Tadashi Nagano.
Bang-Yen Chen taught at Tamkang University between 1966 and 1968, and at the National Tsing Hua University in the academic year 1967–1968. After his doctoral years at University of Notre Dame, he joined the faculty at Michigan State University as a research associate from 1970–1972, where he became associate professor in 1972, and full professor in 1976. He was presented with the title of University Distinguished Professor in 1990. After 2012 he became University Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
Bang-Yen Chen is the author of over 500 works including 12 books, mainly in differential geometry and related subjects. His works have been cited over 27,000 times.
On October 20–21, 2018, at the 1143rd Meeting of the American Mathematical Society held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the Special Sessions was dedicated to Bang-Yen Chen's 75th birthday.

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