CSE Prof. Fan Chung Graham and 30 others worldwide have been named as the Class of 2015 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was cited for her contributions to “combinatorics, graph theory and their applications,” and those applications have included Internet computing, communication networks, software reliability and more.
The Distinguished Professor has joint appointments in CSE and the Department of Mathematics, where she holds the Paul Erdös Chair in Combinatorics. In the early 1990s, Chung Graham served on the council of SIAM.
She is not the only Graham to be honored by SIAM – not even in the Graham household. That’s because her husband and fellow CSE professor, Ronald Graham, was honored in 2009 to be included in the inaugural class of SIAM Fellows. Ron Graham is also Chief Scientist in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
In 2013, Chung Graham and her husband were recruited to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Both are experts in theoretical computer science and combinatorics. Among her other honors, Chung Graham received the Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1990, and she is one of three CSE professors awarded membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (The others? Larry Smarr and... Ron Graham).
Chung Graham earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. She went on to work at Bell Labs in its Mathematical Foundations of Computing department.
In 1975 she published her first joint paper with Ron Graham. The two married in 1983.