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10 Facts About Shang-Hua Teng

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Shang-Hua Teng is a Chinese-American computer scientist.

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Shang-Hua Teng is the Seeley G Mudd Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Southern California.

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Shang-Hua Teng's father, Dr Teng Zhanhong, was a professor of civil engineering at the Taiyuan University of Technology.

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Shang-Hua Teng's mother, Li Guixin, was an administrator at the same university.

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Shang-Hua Teng obtained MS in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1988.

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Shang-Hua Teng has taught at MIT, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Shang-Hua Teng has worked at Xerox PARC, NASA Ames Research Center, Intel Corporation, IBM Almaden Research Center, Akamai Technologies, Microsoft Research Redmond, Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research Asia.

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In 2008 Shang-Hua Teng was awarded the Godel Prize for his joint work on smoothed analysis of algorithms with Daniel Spielman.

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Shang-Hua Teng was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to scalable algorithm design, mesh generation, and algorithmic game theory, and for pioneering smoothed analysis of linear programming".

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In 2003, Shang-Hua Teng married Diana Irene Williams, then a Ph.