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{{short description|Mathematician at Stanford University}}
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* [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]]
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'''Jinyoung Park''' ({{Korean|hangul=박진영}}; born 1982) is a South Korean [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]] at [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] working in [[Combinatorics|combinatorics]] and [[Graph theory|graph theory]]. In 2022, she released a preprint containing a 6-page proposed proof of the [[Kahn–Kalai conjecture]] with Huy Tuan Pham.<ref name=IAS>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-18 |title=Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham Prove the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture |url=https://www.ias.edu/news/park-and-pham-prove-kahn-kalai-conjecture |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Institute for Advanced Study |language=en}}</ref><ref name=KahnKalaiPreprint>{{Cite arXiv |last1=Park |first1=Jinyoung |last2=Pham |first2=Huy Tuan |date=2022-03-31 |title=A Proof of the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture |class=math.CO |eprint=2203.17207}}</ref><ref name=Stanford>{{Cite web |title=Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham Prove the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture |url=https://mathematics.stanford.edu/news/jinyoung-park-and-huy-tuan-pham-prove-kahn-kalai-conjecture |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Department of Mathematics, [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Quanta>{{Cite web |last=Cepelewicz |first=Jordana |date=2022-04-25 |title=Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/elegant-six-page-proof-reveals-the-emergence-of-random-structure-20220425/ |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Quanta Magazine |language=en}}</ref>

==Education and career==
Park entered Seoul National University in 2001 and received her B.S. in Mathematics Education in 2004.<ref name=Homepage/> She worked as a mathematics teacher in secondary schools in [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]] from 2005 to 2011.<ref name=Homepage/> She began her graduate studies at [[Organization:Rutgers University|Rutgers University]] in 2014, where she received her Ph.D. in 2020 under the supervision of [[Biography:Jeff Kahn|Jeff Kahn]].<ref name=Homepage>{{Cite web |title=Jinyoung Park |url=https://sites.google.com/view/jinyoungpark |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=Jinyoung Park |language=en-US}}</ref> Her doctoral work earned the 2022 Dissertation Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-dissertation-prize/awm-dissertation-prize-2022/ |title=AWM Dissertation Prize 2022 |website=Association for Women in Mathematics |date=2022 |access-date=2022-05-09}}</ref>

She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2020 to 2021.<ref name=IAS/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/jinyoung-park |website=Institute for Advanced Study |title=Jinyoung Park |access-date=2022-05-09}}</ref> Since 2021, she has continued her postdoctoral work as a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where her postdoctoral mentor is [[Biography:Jacob Fox|Jacob Fox]].<ref name=Homepage/><ref name=StanfordProfile>{{Cite web |title=Jinyoung Park's Profile |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/272629 |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=[[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, Park received the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2023 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Mathematics And Fundamental Physics Announced |url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/73 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=breakthroughprize.org |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* Frankston, Keith; Kahn, Jeff; Narayanan, Bhargav; Park, Jinyoung "Thresholds versus fractional expectation-thresholds." ''Ann. of Math. (2)'' 194 (2021), no. 2, 475–495.
* {{cite arXiv |last1=Park |first1=Jinyoung |last2=Pham |first2=Huy Tuan |date=2022-03-31 |title=A Proof of the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture |class=math.CO |eprint=2203.17207}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://profiles.stanford.edu/272629 Profile at Stanford]


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