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Jinyoung Park
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| Born | 1982 |
| Nationality | South Korean |
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| Known for | Kahn–Kalai conjecture |
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| Academic advisors | Jeff Kahn |
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| Hangul | 박진영 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Jinyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chinyŏng |
Jinyoung Park (Hangul: 박진영; born 1982) is a South Korean mathematician at Stanford University working in combinatorics and graph theory. In 2022, she released a preprint containing a 6-page proposed proof of the Kahn–Kalai conjecture with Huy Tuan Pham.
Education and career
Park entered Seoul National University in 2001 and received her B.S. in Mathematics Education in 2004. She worked as a mathematics teacher in secondary schools in Seoul from 2005 to 2011. She began her graduate studies at Rutgers University in 2014, where she received her Ph.D. in 2020 under the supervision of Jeff Kahn. Her doctoral work earned the 2022 Dissertation Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2020 to 2021. Since 2021, she has continued her postdoctoral work as a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where her postdoctoral mentor is Jacob Fox. In 2023, Park received the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes.
Selected works
- Frankston, Keith; Kahn, Jeff; Narayanan, Bhargav; Park, Jinyoung "Thresholds versus fractional expectation-thresholds." Ann. of Math. (2) 194 (2021), no. 2, 475–495.
