Zhiwei Yun
Chinese-American mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The native form of this personal name is Yun Zhiwei. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zhiwei Yun (Chinese: 恽之玮; pinyin: Yùn Zhīwěi; born September 1982) is a Chinese-born American mathematician and writer. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, with a particular focus on the Langlands program.
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Born | Yun Zhiwei (恽之玮) September 1982 (age 41) |
Alma mater | Peking University Princeton University |
Known for | Contributions to number theory, representation theory and algebraic geometry |
Awards | Gold Medal, IMO (2000)[2] SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2012)[3] 2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prize (2018) Morningside Medal (2019) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University Yale University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert MacPherson |
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He was previously a C. L. E. Moore instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012, assistant professor then associate professor at Stanford University from 2012 to 2016, and professor at Yale University from 2016 to 2017.