# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lai-sang-young
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:37:31.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lai-sang-young"
name: "Lai-Sang Young"
slug: "lai-sang-young"
description: "Lai-Sang Lily Young is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of\nNew York University. Her research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and neuroscience. She is particularly known for introducing the method of Markov returns in 1998, which she used to prove exponential correlation delay in Sinai billiards and other hyperbolic dynamical systems."
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birthDate: "1952-01-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump