ICCM Medal of Mathematics

Yu Deng is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on nonlinear dispersive and wave equations, fluid dynamics, harmonic analysis, probabilistic methods in partial differential equations, and statistical physics.

He earned his B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2015, where he completed a dissertation titled "Long time behavior of some nonlinear dispersive equations" under the supervision of Professor Alexandru Ionescu. He also attended Peking University from 2007 to 2009.

Professor Deng's academic career includes positions as a Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2015–2018), Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Southern California (2018–2024), and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago (2024–2025).

He has received numerous distinguished honors, including the MCA Prize (2025), ICBS Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics (2024), Sloan Research Fellowship (2021), Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship (2015), William Lowell Putnam Fellowship (2010), and a Gold Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2006).

Hong Wang is an Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University and a permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. Her research specializes in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, with significant contributions to problems such as the Fourier restriction conjecture, the Falconer distance set conjecture, and the Kakeya set conjecture.

She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in 2011, after transferring from the School of Earth and Space Sciences to pursue her passion for mathematics. She earned an Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master's degree from the University of Paris XI in 2014, followed by a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Larry Guth. She completed postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in June 2021. Professor Wang began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in July 2021. She joined the Courant Institute as an Associate Professor in 2023 and promoted to Professor in 2025.

Her notable awards include the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2022) and the Best Paper Award from the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (2023). In 2025, in collaboration with Professor Joshua Zahl of Columbia University, she announced a proof of the long-standing Kakeya set conjecture in a 127-page paper. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, and Duke Mathematical Journal.

Xinyi Yuan is a Professor at the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University. His research centers on number theory, with a particular focus on the interrelations among Arakelov geometry, Diophantine equations, automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, and algebraic dynamics.

He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in 2003 and earned his PH.D. in Mathematics from Columbia University in 2008. Following his doctorate, he served as a Clay Research Fellow from 2008 to 2011, holding postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced study, Harvard University, and Columbia University.

His academic career includes appointments as Assistant professor at Princeton University (2011-2012), Assistant then Associate Professor at UC Berkeley (2012-2019), and Chair Professor at Peking University (2020- ).

Professor Yuan has been recognized with several distinguished honors, including a Clay Research Fellowship (2008-2011), an Xplorer Prize (2022), and an invitation to speak at the International Congress of Mathematics (2026).

Huanchen Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research primarily lies in representation theory, including its connection with combinatorics and geometry.

He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Sichuan University in 2010 and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 2015, under the supervision of Professor Weiqiang Wang. Following his doctorate, he held several prestigious postdoctoral positions, including as a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (2016-2017), a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (summer of 2016, summer of 2017, summer of 2018), and a Brin Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park (2015-2019). He joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in 2019.

Professor Bao has been recognized with several notable awards, including the Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory in 2020 (joint with Weiqiang Wang), the ICCM Best Paper Award in 2018.

Bangti Jin is a Professor of Mathematics, and Global STEM Scholar of Hong Kong SAR, at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in mathematics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. Previously he was Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Inverse Problems at University College London (2014-2022), Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University at California, Riverside (2013-2014), Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University (2010-2013), and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bremen (2009-2010).

His research interest lies in applied and computational mathematics, including computational inverse problems, numerical analysis, and machine learning. He serves on the editorial boards of eight academic journals, including Inverse Problems and Journal of Computational Mathematics.

Kelei Wang is a Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and geometric measure theory. He has made significant contributions to problems such as the Allen–Cahn equation, supercritical concentration phenomena, the De Giorgi conjecture, and the classification of stable and finite Morse index solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations.

He earned his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2005 and his Ph.D. from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Sydney, Australia (2010–2012), served as an Associate Researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012–2014), and joined Wuhan University in 2015.

Professor Wang has received several distinguished honors, including the Ruolin Prize from the ICCM (2024), the Zhong Jiaqing Prize awarded by the Chinese Mathematical Society (2013), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2011).

Zhouli Xu is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research specializes in algebraic topology, particularly focusing on classical, motivic, and equivariant stable homotopy groups of spheres, with connections to algebraic geometry and geometric topology.

He received his B.S. in 2008 and M.S. in 2011 from Peking University and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2017 under the supervision of J. Peter May, Daniel Isaksen, and Mark Mahowald.

Professor Xu began his academic career as a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017-2020). He then joined the University of California, San Diego, where he progressed from Assistant Professor (2020-2022) to tenured Associate Professor (2022-2024), and briefly served as Professor (2024) before moving to his current position at UCLA in November 2024.

His distinguished honors include being elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2023), receiving the K-Theory Prize for mathematicians under 35 (2022), and being an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2022). He has also been recognized with multiple ICCM Best Paper Awards (2018, 2023, 2025), Frontiers of Science Awards (2023, 2024), an AMS Centennial Research Fellowship (2025-2026), and William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Chicago(2016). He has published multiple articles in Annals of Mathematics, Acta Mathematica, Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, and Inventiones Mathematicae.

Yihang Zhu is a Professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC) of Tsinghua University. His research centers on number theory and automorphic representations, with a particular focus on the interrelations predicted by the Langlands Program. His work explores the arithmetic of Shimura varieties, Rapoport–Zink spaces, and affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties, as well as automorphic representations, the Arthur–Selberg trace formula, endoscopy, and the representation theory of real and p-adic groups.

He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 2017, under the supervision of Professor Mark Kisin. Following his doctorate, he served as a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University (2017–2020) and later as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland (2020–2023). In 2023, he joined Tsinghua University as a professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center.