Wang Hong
Wang, 35, is currently a Professor of Mathematics at New York University’s Courant Institute, and also a professor at France’s Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
Wang was 16 when she was admitted to China’s elite Peking University. She initially studied at the earth and space sciences school before switching to the university’s mathematics programme.
After completing her undergraduate education in 2011, South China Morning Post reported that she attended France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Paris-Sud University, earning an engineering degree and a master’s degree in mathematics.
She went on to earn her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed her doctorate in 2019.
In its Fields Medal citation, the International Mathematical Union noted, among other things, Wang’s work in “harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory”, as well as “major advances in Fourier restriction”.
Deng Yu
Deng Yu, 37, is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Also an alumnus of Peking University, Deng got his master’s degree at MIT and obtained his PhD in mathematics in 2015 from Princeton University.
According to his personal website, Deng grew up in Shenzhen in Guangdong province and enjoys poetry, puzzles, manga and football.
In its Fields Medal citation, the International Mathematical Union noted, among other things, Deng’s work in “partial differential equations” and “probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrodinger dynamics”.
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