Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (born December 15, 1974) is a Taiwanese mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Her research interests include algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.

Education
Liu graduated from National Taiwan University in 1996, and earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau.

Career
After continuing at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, she took a faculty position at Northwestern University, and moved to Columbia in 2006.

Liu won the Morningside Silver Medal in 2007. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.