Alice Yen-Ping Ting is Taiwanese-born American chemist. She is a professor in the department of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Alice Ting was born in Taiwan and emigrated to the United States when she was three years old. She was raised in Texas and attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS). In 1991, she attended the prestigious Research Science Institute. She received her BS in Chemistry from Harvard in 1996, working with Nobel laureate E.J. Corey.