Kefeng Liu

Kefeng Liu
Kefeng Liu at Hangzhou in 2004
Born	(1965-12-12) 12 December 1965 (age 58) Kaifeng, Henan, China
Nationality	Chinese
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University Chinese Academy of Sciences Peking University
Awards	Morningside Gold Medal (2004) Guggenheim Fellow (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhejiang University University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Shing-Tung Yau

Kefeng Liu (Chinese: 刘克峰; born 12 December 1965), is a Chinese-American mathematician who is known for his contributions to geometric analysis, particularly the geometry, topology and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and Calabi–Yau manifolds. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the executive director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University. He is best known for his collaboration with Bong Lian and Shing-Tung Yau in which they establish some enumerative geometry conjectures motivated by mirror symmetry.