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Researcher · Harvard University Press · United States

Shing‐Tung Yau

Shing‐Tung Yau publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Geometry and Topology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, on topics such as Optical measurement and interference techniques, Geometric and Algebraic Topology and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#299,260
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#112,902
of 358,040
Works
23
Citations
176
Citations per work
7.7

What does Shing‐Tung Yau research?

Computational Theory and Mathematics: 12.8%Geometry and Topology: 12.8%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10.3%other fields: 53.8%13%top field
Computational Theory and Mathematics12.8%Geometry and Topology12.8%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition10.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10.3%other fields53.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics13% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition10% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  5. 5Statistics and Probability5% of their works
  6. 6Condensed Matter Physics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shing‐Tung Yau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Approximation Algorithms, Bayesian Monte Carlo, Camera Calibration, Knot Invariants, Markov Chain, Structured Light, Symplectic Topology and Compression.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Approximation Algorithms32 topics
  2. Bayesian Monte Carlo21 topic
  3. Camera Calibration21 topic
  4. Knot Invariants21 topic
  5. Markov Chain21 topic
  6. Structured Light21 topic
  7. Symplectic Topology21 topic
  8. Compression11 topic
  9. Graph Labeling11 topic
  10. Graph Theory11 topic
  11. Matrix Computations11 topic
  12. Metric Dimension11 topic
  13. Numerical Linear Algebra11 topic
  14. Parameterized Complexity11 topic
  15. Persistent Homology11 topic
  16. Suffix Arrays11 topic
  17. Topological Methods11 topic

Where does Shing‐Tung Yau work?

Shing‐Tung Yau's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Shing‐Tung Yau have?

Science Explorer counts 23 works and 176 citations for Shing‐Tung Yau, ranking #299,260 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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