Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang is Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zhang works in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. His research program involves fundamental objects such as L-functions, which appear in the Riemann hypothesis and its generalizations, and are central to the Langlands program. With collaborators he has discovered geometric interpretations for the higher derivatives of L-functions and has made significant advances on conjectures subsequent to the Gross--Zagier theorem on elliptic curves, including new results towards the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He holds a B.Sc from Peking university and Ph.D from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.