Tianyi Zheng

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Tianyi Zheng
Education Tsinghua University
Cornell University (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, San Diego
Thesis Random Walks On Some Classes Of Solvable Groups  (2013)
Doctoral advisor Laurent Saloff-Coste

Tianyi Zheng is a Chinese-American mathematician specializing in geometric group theory and probability theory, including the theory of random walks and harmonic functions on groups. [1] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. [2]

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Education and career

Zheng was an undergraduate mathematics student at Tsinghua University, graduating in 2008. [3] She completed a Ph.D. in 2013 at Cornell University, with the dissertation Random Walks On Some Classes Of Solvable Groups advised by Laurent Saloff-Coste. [3] [4]

She became a postdoctoral Szegő Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 2013 to 2016 before obtaining a regular-rank faculty position as assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego in 2016. [1] [3]

Recognition

Zheng was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019. [1] She was an invited speaker in mathematical analysis at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians. [5]

In 2024, she was a recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize, given "for her deep results and resolution of long-standing conjectures on random walks on groups". [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dillon, Cynthia (February 20, 2019), "Mathematician's Research adds up to a 2019 Sloan Fellowship: Tianyi Zheng is UC San Diego's newest Sloan Research Fellow", UC San Diego Today, retrieved 2024-08-09
  2. ↑ "Tianyi Zheng, professor", Profiles, UCSD Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2024-08-09
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), UCSD Department of Mathematics, 2021, retrieved 2024-08-09
  4. ↑ Tianyi Zheng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2024-08-09
  6. ↑ The Rollo Davidson Prize, University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory, retrieved 2024-08-09
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