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Fan Chung

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Fan-Rong King Chung Graham (Chinese: 金芳蓉; pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng; born October 9, 1949), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs, in particular in generalizing the Erdős–Rényi model for graphs with general degree distribution (including power-law graphs in the study of large information networks). Since 1998, Chung has been the Paul Erdős Professor in Combinatorics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. After working at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore for nineteen years, she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as the first female tenured professor in mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fan Chung is the 925th most popular mathematician (up from 957th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Taiwan (up from 66th in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Fan Chung ranks 925 out of 1,004. Before her are Arthur Geoffrey Walker, William Gemmell Cochran, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Caucher Birkar, and Ivar Otto Bendixson. After her are Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Garfield, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Barry Mazur, Béla Bollobás, and Carl Pomerance.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Fan Chung ranks 650. Before her are Pat Rice, Masaaki Shirakawa, Eduard Kozynkevych, Bobby Clarke, Viktor Kupreichik, and Jürgen Colombo. After her are Atanas Mihaylov, Julio Cardeñosa, Wilfried Gröbner, Lauren Shuler Donner, Aslaug Dahl, and Brian Kidd.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Fan Chung ranks 52 out of 116. Before her are Justin Lin (1971), Joseph Tsai (1964), Jerry Yan (1977), Lin Chuan (1951), Audrey Tang (1981), and Chen Chu (1950). After her are Collin Chou (1967), Christina Chang (1971), Vic Chou (1981), Tsai Chih-chung (1948), Hou Yu-ih (1956), and Hsieh Su-wei (1986).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Taiwan

Among mathematicians born in Taiwan, Fan Chung ranks 1. 

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