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]

Education and career

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c 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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