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

Combinatorics at Georgia Tech

Current graduate students:

  • May Cai (Ph.D. Math)

Former graduate students:

  • Maxie Schmidt, Ph.D. Math 2022
  • Cvetelina Hill, Ph.D. Math 2021
  • Marcel Celaya, Ph.D. ACO-Math 2019

Short Vita

Education

  • Ph.D. Mathematics (2007), UC Berkeley
    Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels
  • B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science (2003), UC Davis 
    Advisor: Motohico Mulase

Positions

  • 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

Honors and Awards

  • 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

Grants

Conference Grants

  • 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.