Curriculum Vitae of Alexander Yong

Employment
- Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor (2016-).
- Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor (2012-2016).
- Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor (2008-12).
- Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor (2005-2008).
- University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Assistant Professor (2003-2005).

Education
- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ph.D. in Mathematics (2003) [advisor: Sergey Fomin].
- University of Waterloo, Canada , M.Math. (1999) [advisor: Ian Goulden] and B.Math. (1998).
Research interests: Combinatorics and relations to algebra, geometry and other areas of mathematics.
Homepage at http://ayong.web.illinois.edu has links to downloadable papers (with brief abstracts), etc.
Honors:
(2008-2023) UIUC List of Teachers ranked excellent (20+ times)
(2023) Arnold O. Beckman Award (Campus Research Board, UIUC)
(2020-2021) UIUC Center for Advanced Study Associate
(2018) Distinguished Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty (Dept. Mathematics, UIUC)
(2018) Arnold O. Beckman Award (Campus Research Board, UIUC)
(2012-2013) Helen Corley Petit Scholar (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC)
(2011) G. de B. Robinson Award of the Canadian Math Society (with Hugh Thomas)
(2011-2012) UIUC Center for Advanced Study/Beckman Fellow
(2005-2006) National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral fellowship
(1998) K.D. Fryer Gold Medal, University of Waterloo
Grants/scholarships:
(2023-2028) Simons Travel Support for Mathematicians grant
(2020-2025) NSF RTG in combinatorics DMS 1937241, co-PI (PI: Jozsi Balogh, co-PIs: Philippe DiFrancesco, Rinat Kedem, Sasha Kostochka)
(2019-2022) NSF conference grant DMS 1848607, PI
(2018-2023) Simons Collaboration grant
(2015-2019) NSF standard grant DMS 1500691, PI
(2015-2018) NSF conference grant DMS 1518871, PI
(2012-2016) NSF standard grant DMS 1201595, PI
(2014-2015) Campus research board UIUC, PI; funding for a Research Assistant
(2012-2013) Campus research board UIUC, PI; funding for a Research Assistant
(2011-2014) NSF Conference grant DMS 1146096
(2010-2011) Campus Research Board UIUC, PI; funding for Research Assistant.
(2009-2012) NSF standard grant DMS 0901331, PI
(2006-2009) NSF standard grant DMS 0601010, Co-PI (PI: Victor Reiner)
(2006-2007) U. Minnesota Digital Technology center grant (award amount total: $24,671); for research in applied algorithms, Co-PI with David Redish (Neuroscience), (PI Duane Nykamp)
(2006) Fields Institute funding to organize "Workshop on Computational and Combinatorial commutative algebra" ($4000 Canadian), PI
(2002) Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, U. Michigan
(1998-1999) NSERC PGS A Scholarship for graduate studies
(1994-1998) Descartes Mathematics Fellowship, University of Waterloo
(1994-1998) Canada Fellowship, national 4 year award
Some recent Professional Activities:
Founding Member of the Association for Mathematical Research
Editorial Board: Algebraic combinatorics (ALCO) , Annals of Combinatorics
Mentoring: see here
IMPAGA 2020 conference scientific committee
Subtraction free combinatorics conference (in honor of Sergey Fomin's 60th birthday); organizing committee.
Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference 2010, 2014, 2017 Program committee
Agora days instructor at Uni High School (Urbana), 2015, 2016, 2017
Illinois High School Math finals oral presentation judge, 2011, 2014 and 2016, 2019
Review committee of mathematics program at the Illinois Math and Science Academy (2019)
UIUC Graduate college executive committee
Additional CV: .pdf
Contacts
Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Email: ayong@math.uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 244-5120
Fax: (217) 333-9576

Last modified: July 2023