Mihyun Kang
Korean mathematician
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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]
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Mihyun Kang | |
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Kang in Oberwolfach, 2023 | |
| Education | KAIST |
| Awards | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | Graz University of Technology LMU Munich HU Berlin |
| Thesis | Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups (2001) |
| Geon Ho Choe | |
Education and career
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 LMU 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]
Recognition
Kang was a 2019 winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[1]