# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugenia-cheng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:23:13.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugenia-cheng"
name: "Eugenia Cheng"
slug: "eugenia-cheng"
description: "Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. Cheng is a scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago."
tagline: "English mathematician and pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EugeniaCheng_PhiBetaKappa_EnLightningTalksChicago2016_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1976-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.705472770695281
  historical:           8.374949333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "DrEugeniaCheng"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/eugenia.cheng"
    handle:    "eugenia.cheng"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
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    handle:    "eugenia-cheng-47697b6b"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.eugeniacheng.com/"
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    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
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    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Cheng"
    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Cheng"
    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Cheng"
    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Cheng"
    title: "Eugenia Cheng"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump