About

Josephine Yu
Professor
School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
pronouns: she/her/hers

Research interests: algebraic and geometric combinatorics, tropical geometry, computational and combinatorial algebraic geometry

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Short Vita

2022 – present, Professor, Georgia Tech, Mathematics
2017 – 2022, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, Mathematics
2017 Fall, Research Professor, MSRI program on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
2010 – 2017, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, Mathematics
2010 Spring, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgia Tech, Mathematics
2009 Fall, Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI program on Tropical Geometry
2008-2009, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT, Mathematics
2007 – 2009, Applied Mathematics Instructor (postdoc), MIT, Mathematics

2020-21, Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow, Georgia Tech
2016, Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, Georgia Tech
2008 – 2011, NSF postdoctoral research fellowship
2007 Summer, Liftoff Fellowship from Clay Mathematics Institute
2006 – 2007, UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship
2003 – 2006, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2003, Runner-up, Alice T. Schafer Prize from Association for Women in Mathematics

2024 – 2027, NSF-DHM grant #2348701, Positivity in Tropical Geometry and Combinatorics
2019 – 2024, NSF-DMS grant #1855726, Polytopes and Real Tropical Geometry
2016 – 2019, NSF-DMS grant #1600569, Tropical Combinatorics and Applications
2011 – 2015, NSF-DMS grant #1101289, Tropical geometry: combinatorics, topology, and algorithms

2019, PI for NSF-DMS grant #1903206: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (MEGA conference).
2012, co-PI for NSF-DMS grant #1201654: Algebraic geometry for applications, IMA-PI summer graduate program, Georgia Tech.
2011, PI for NSF grant #1138935: Tropical geometry workshop at CIEM in Castro Urdiales, Spain.