Yifeng Liu

The native form of this personal name is Liu Yifeng. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Yifeng Liu
Liu at Oberwolfach in 2014
Born	(1985-07-19) July 19, 1985 Shanghai, China
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	Columbia University Peking University
Awards	Sloan Research Fellowship (2017) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Yale University Northwestern University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhejiang University
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.

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. Liu returned to China in 2021 to join Zheijiang University became a full professor of mathematics.

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.

Awards

He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017.

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

External links

• Yifeng Liu's personal homepage