Shan Shan

About me

I am Shan Shan. My name in Chinese characters is 单珊. I grew up in Tsingtao, a coastal city in China. I went to Agnes Scott College, where I became a mathematician, art lover, and feminist. During college, I spent a year in Hungary for the Budapest Semester in Mathematics. In 2014, I graduated summa cum laude from Agnes Scott with a BA in mathematics.

After college, I became a graduate student in mathematics at Duke University, where I worked on some geometry processing and statistical shape analysis. In 2019, I received my PhD, with a thesis advised by Ingrid Daubechies on probabilistic models on fiber bundles. In 2019-2020, I was a post-doc researcher at Duke. In 2020, I became an assistant professor of statistics at Mount Holyoke College. In 2022, I joined the University of Southern Denmark as an assitant professor of quantum mathematics.

Besides doing math, I like to read and practice caligraphy. I am a big fan of forrest and Haruki Murakami. I am also a bad pianist and a newbie violin player.