# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-shing-toung-yau
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:35:33.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-shing-toung-yau"
name: "Stephen Shing-Toung Yau"
slug: "stephen-shing-toung-yau"
description: "Stephen Shing-Toung Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and currently teaches at Tsinghua University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Mathematical Society."
tagline: "Chinese-American mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.417676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  41
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Shing-Toung_Yau"
    title: "Stephen Shing-Toung Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%98%E6%88%90%E6%A3%9F"
    title: "丘成棟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30069574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations