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{{Short description|Taiwanese-American mathematician}}
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'''Lan-Hsuan Huang''' ({{lang-zh|黃籃萱}}) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and [[Physics:Mathematical physics|mathematical physicist]] specializing in [[Differential geometry|differential geometry]], [[Geometric analysis|geometric analysis]], and their applications in the [[Physics:Theory of relativity|theory of relativity]].{{r|shape}} She is a professor of mathematics at the [[Organization:University of Connecticut|University of Connecticut]].

==Education and career==
Huang majored in mathematics at National Taiwan University, graduating in 2004.{{r|cv}} She went to [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] for graduate study in mathematics, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2009. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Center of Mass and Constant Mean Curvature Foliations for Isolated Systems'', was supervised by [[Biography:Richard Schoen|Richard Schoen]].{{r|cv|mg}}

After three years at [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia University]] as Joseph F. Ritt Assistant Professor of Mathematics, she obtained a tenure-track position as assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut in 2012. She was promoted to associate professor in 2016, and full professor in 2020.{{r|cv}}

==Recognition==
In 2018, Huang was named as a Simons Fellow in mathematics and as a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.{{r|cv}} She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows.{{r|fams}}

==References==
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<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://lhhuang.math.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1744/2023/10/Huang_CV_short.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=October 2023|access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>

<ref name=fams>{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2024|title=2024 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>

<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|142707}}</ref>

<ref name=shape>{{citation|url=https://today.uconn.edu/2015/03/the-shape-of-the-universe/|magazine=UConn Today|title=The Shape of the Universe: Mathematician Lan-Hsuan Huang draws on Einstein’s theories of gravitation and relativity to understand what shapes are possible in the universe|date=March 9, 2015|first=Christine|last=Buckley|access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>

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==External links==
*[https://lhhuang.math.uconn.edu/ Home page]
*{{Google Scholar id|Owu1U1oAAAAJ}}

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