Yifeng Liu

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Yifeng Liu
Born (1985-07-19) July 19, 1985 (age 36)
NationalityChinese
Alma mater Columbia University
Peking University
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions
Thesis Arithmetic inner product formula for unitary groups  (2012)
Doctoral advisor Shou-Wu Zhang

Yifeng Liu (born July 19, 1985 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese professor of mathematics at Zhejiang University specializing in number theory, automorphic forms and arithmetic geometry. [1]

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Career

Liu received his BS Degree from Peking University in 2007 and PhD degree from Columbia University, New York, in 2012 under the direction of Shou-Wu Zhang. He was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at MIT from 2012 to 2015 and an assistant professor at Northwestern University from 2015 to 2018 before being appointed an associate professor at Yale University. [2] [3] Liu returned to China in 2021 to join Zheijiang University became a full professor of mathematics. [4]

Liu has made important contributions to arithmetic geometry and number theory. His contributions span a wide spectrum of topics such as arithmetic theta lifts and derivatives of L-functions, the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture and its arithmetic counterpart, the Beilinson–Bloch–Kato conjecture, the geometric Langlands program, the p-adic Waldspurger theorem, and the study of étale cohomology on Artin stacks. [2]

Awards

He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017. [2]

He was awarded the 2018 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his contributions to the field of mathematics. He shared the prize with Jack Thorne. [5] [3]

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References

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