Jinyoung Park (; born 1982) is a South Korean mathematician at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University working in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

and graph theory. In 2022, she released a preprint, joint with Huy Tuan Pham, containing a proof of the

Kahn–Kalai conjecture The Kahn–Kalai conjecture, also known as the expectation threshold conjecture, is a conjecture in the field of graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise rel ...

. Their paper was published in the

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in 2024.

Education and career

Park entered

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

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

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. She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2020 to 2021. From 2021 to 2022 she was a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where her postdoctoral mentor was Jacob Fox. She joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 2023, where she is currently an assistant professor. In 2023, Park received the

Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics is an annual award of the Breakthrough Prize series announced in 2013. It is funded by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg and others. The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million. The Breakthrough Prize ...

for contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes. In 2024, she received the Dénes König Prize together with her coauthor Huy Tuan Pham.

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. * Park, Jinyoung; Pham, Huy Tuan "A proof of the Kahn–Kalai conjecture." ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' 37 (2024), 235-243

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Jinyoung Living people 21st-century South Korean mathematicians South Korean women mathematicians Combinatorialists Rutgers University alumni 1982 births Seoul National University alumni