Mihyun Kang | |
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Nationality | South Korea |
Alma mater | KAIST |
Awards | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
Graz University of Technology University of Munich HU Berlin |
Thesis | Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Geon Ho Choe |
Mihyun Kang ( Korean: 강미현) is a South Korean mathematician specializing in combinatorics, including graph enumeration and the topological properties of random graphs. [1] She is a professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology. [2]
Kang completed a PhD at KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in 2001. Her dissertation, Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups, was supervised by Geon Ho Choe. [3]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2001 to 2008, and completed a habilitation there in 2007. From 2008 to 2011 she was funded by the German Research Foundation as a Heisenberg Fellow. After taking an acting professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2011, she became a full professor at the Graz University of Technology in 2012. [4] At the same time, she became head of the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Graz. [5]
Kang was a 2019 winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. [1]
Mihyun Kang | |
---|---|
Nationality | South Korea |
Alma mater | KAIST |
Awards | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
Graz University of Technology University of Munich HU Berlin |
Thesis | Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Geon Ho Choe |
Mihyun Kang ( Korean: 강미현) is a South Korean mathematician specializing in combinatorics, including graph enumeration and the topological properties of random graphs. [1] She is a professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology. [2]
Kang completed a PhD at KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in 2001. Her dissertation, Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups, was supervised by Geon Ho Choe. [3]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2001 to 2008, and completed a habilitation there in 2007. From 2008 to 2011 she was funded by the German Research Foundation as a Heisenberg Fellow. After taking an acting professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2011, she became a full professor at the Graz University of Technology in 2012. [4] At the same time, she became head of the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Graz. [5]
Kang was a 2019 winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. [1]