title: Ching-Li Chai
text: # Ching-Li Chai
  
  Ching-Li Chai (Chinese: 翟敬立; born 12 June 1956) is a Taiwanese mathematician.
  
  ## Career
  
  Chai completed his doctoral thesis, Compactification of the Siegel Moduli Schemes, in 1984, under the supervision of David Mumford at Harvard University. Chai was the Francis J. Carey Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2012. He was elected to membership of Academia Sinica in 2010.
  
  