title: Loring W. Tu
text: # Loring W. Tu
  
  Loring W. Tu (杜武亮, Wade–Giles: Tu Wu-liang) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the grandson of Taiwanese pharmacologist Tu Tsung-ming. He is a younger brother of Charles Tu, who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego.
  
  He currently works at Tufts University.
  
  ## Career
  
  He attended McGill University and Princeton University as an undergraduate. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His doctoral advisor was Phillip A. Griffiths. His dissertation thesis was titled Hodge Theory and the Local Torelli Problem.
  
  He is currently a professor of mathematics at Tufts University.
  
  He has frequently collaborated with Raoul Bott.
  
  