Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang is a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of MATH. He joined the Math Faculty as Professor in September 2017. Zhang received a BS from Peking University in 2004 and a PhD from Columbia University in 2009, both in mathematics. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he was appointed Benjamin Peirce Fellow at Harvard from 2010-2011. He subsequently joined the mathematics faculty at Columbia University in 2011 and became a full professor at MIT in 2017. His research focuses on number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry, with significant contributions to the Langlands program and the study of L-functions.