Weiqing Gu

The native form of this personal name is Gu Weiqing. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Weiqing Gu is a Chinese-American mathematician who works as the Avery Professor of Mathematics and director of the mathematics clinic at Harvey Mudd College. Her research concerns differential geometry and Grassmann manifolds.[1] She has also worked with Harvey Mudd colleague Lisette de Pillis on the mathematical modeling of cancer.[2]

Gu began teaching mathematics at Shanghai Teachers University in 1980, earned a bachelor's degree there in 1984, and continued teaching there until 1987.[3] She began her graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma in 1988, but moved the following year to the University of Pennsylvania,[3] completing her Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Herman R. Gluck, a topologist who had been a student of Ralph Fox.[4] In 1996, she added a master's degree in computer science, also from the University of Pennsylvania, after which she joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd.[3]

  1. ^ Mathematics Faculty at HMC, retrieved 2015-09-04.
  2. ^ "New Research Project: Curing Cancer With Mathematics" (PDF), Medical News Today, June 22, 2007, retrieved 2015-09-04.
  3. ^ a b c Gu, Weiqing (2005), Curriculum vitae (long version) (PDF), retrieved 2015-09-04.
  4. ^ Weiqing Gu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.