Wei Zhang (mathematician)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.

Wei Zhang or Zhang Wei (Chinese: 张伟; born 1981) is a Chinese mathematician specializing in number theory. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University.

He was a recipient of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2010, the prize citation being: “Wei Zhang has made far-reaching contributions by himself and in collaboration with others to a broad range of areas in mathematics, including number theory, automorphic forms, L-functions, trace formulas, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.”

He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2009 under the supervision of Shou-Wu Zhang.

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