Mihyun Kang

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]

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 the Ludwig Maximilian University of 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]

References
  1. "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis für Prof'in. Dr. Mihyun Kang", Institute for Mathematics (in German), Goethe University Frankfurt, retrieved 2022-07-30
  2. "Personen – Institut für Diskrete Mathematik", TUGRAZ online (in German), Graz University of Technology, retrieved 2022-07-30
  3. Mihyun Kang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Curriculum vitae (PDF), Graz University of Technology, retrieved 2022-07-30
  5. Mehr Frauen-Power für die TU Graz: Entwicklung und Aktivitäten im Überblick (in German), Graz University of Technology, 14 March 2012, retrieved 2022-07-30 – via Informationdienst Wissenschaft
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