Department of Mathematics
Room 2-246
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
Tel: (617) 253-4057
Fax: (617) 253-4358
Email: tian@math.mit.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Harvard University, 1988

M.S. in Mathematics, Peking University, China, 1984

B.S. in Mathematics, Nanking University, China, 1982

Employment

Simons Professor of Mathematics, 1996-   , M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

Professor of Mathematics, 1995-1996, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

Professor of Mathematics, 1992- (on leave for 95/96), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, NYC

Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1991-1992, CIMS, NYU, NYC

Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1990-91, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1988-90, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Other Activities

Visiting Member, 1988-89, Spring 1998, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Visiting Member, Summer 1991, Institute Hautes Etudes Sciences, Paris, France

Visiting Professor, Winter and Spring quarter, 1994, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Professor, 1988-    , Mathematics Institute, Academia Sinica, China

Professor, 1991-    , Peking University, Beijing, China

Editor, 1994-    , Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Editor, 1994-    , Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Editor, 1996-    , Geometry and Topology (electronic journal)

Associate Editor, 1995-    , Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Associate Editor, 1996-    , International Mathematics Research Notices

Fellowships and Honors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1987

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1991-93

19th Alan Waterman Award, 1994

Oswald Veblen prize, 1996