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Tai Melcher
Tai Melcher is a professor and mathematician at the University of Virginia .Aside from teaching, she researches in the realm’s of probability, geometry, and analysis.

Career
Tai Melcher received her P.H.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 2004. A couple years after doing so, she was hired as a professor at the University of Virginia in August 2006. When Tai’s not teaching, she’s researching”infinite dimensional analysis, Gaussian measures and processes, stochastic differential equations on lie groups, Markov processes and semi group’s, differential operators, and hypo elliptical theory”. Tai helps organize the UVA probability seminar, which is where speakers can discuss current research in all areas of probability theory. Tai is also the founder of ”Women in probabilty”, which is an organization for women active in probability research. Their main focus is for more women’s probability research to be seen, as well as helping women who are in the early stages of their career. Tai is a faculty coordinator for the UVA Math Ambassadors.

Awards
In 2014,  Tai  Melcher  won  the  AWM(association  for  women  in  mathematics) service award. The award is given to those who ”help support and promote women in Mathematics through exceptional volunteer service to the AWM”.