Regular biography
Yufei Zhao is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the MATH department. His research focuses on extremal, probabilistic, and additive combinatorics, with connections to mathematics and theoretical computer science. Zhao joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in 2017. He received his dual SB degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT in 2010, an MASt in Mathematics from Cambridge in 2011, and a PhD from MIT in 2015. He has been recognized with several awards, including the SIAM Dénes Kőnig prize (2018), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2019), and the NSF CAREER Award (2021). Zhao runs the Putnam Seminar and oversees MIT's participation in the Putnam Competition.
Scholar-generated biography
Yufei Zhao is a researcher in combinatorics, focusing on the structure and properties of graphs and their connections to additive combinatorics. His work explores topics such as sparse graph convergence, independent sets in regular graphs, and extremal graph theory. Zhao's research also delves into random graphs, replica symmetry, and the interplay between graph theory and additive combinatorics. His contributions include studies on spherical codes, equiangular lines, and the Green-Tao theorem. Zhao's publications often highlight the intersection of combinatorics with probability and analysis, emphasizing the use of probabilistic methods and extremal principles.