Postdocs

Postdoctoral Fellows During the Academic Year 2020-2021

Name	Ph.D Institution	Mentor	Research Interests	Email (@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu)
Omri Ben-Eliezer	Tel Aviv University	Madhu Sudan	Theoretical computer science	omribene
Wei Gu	Viriginia Tech	Shing-Tung Yau	String Theory, Topological Field Theory, Mirror Symmetry, Theoretical Physics	weigu
Daniel Junghans	Leibniz Universitaet Hannover	Cumrun Vafa	Mathematical physics, quantum graphs, and spectral geometry; string theory	djunghans
Kenji Kawaguchi	MIT	Horng-Tzer Yau	Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning theory, Deep Learning theory	kk
Enno Keßler	Max Planck Institute for Mathematics	Shing-Tung Yau	Geometric description of supersymmetric sigma models; Super Geometry, Super Riemann Surfaces	ek
Yoosik Kim	University of Wisconsin at Madison	Shing-Tung Yau	symplectic geometry, Floer theory, mirror symmetry, and integrable systems.	yoosik
Moran Koren	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Scott Kominers	Math finance and economics; Market Design	mkoren
Tsung-Ju Lee	National Taiwan University	Shing-Tung Yau	Agebraic geometry	tjlee
Rongxiao Mi	Unviersity of Michigan	Shing-Tung Yau	Algebraic geometry	rongxiao
Du Pei	Caltech	Shing-Tung Yau	Invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds, Higgs bundles, mirror symmetry, categorification, conformal field theory and TQFT, dynamics of, supersymmetric gauge theories, various other topics in mathematical physics.	dpei
Itamar Shamir	Weizmann Institute of Science	Shing-Tung Yau	Supersymmetry and high energy; Boundary conformal field theory, BH entropy through localization	ishamir
Yun Shi	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Shing-Tung Yau	Algebraic Geometry, Donaldson-Thomas theory, Pandharipande-Thomas theory, stability conditions	yshi
Michael Simkin	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel	Shing-Tung Yau	Combinatorics; Probabilistic Combinatorics	msimkin
Ryan Thorngren	UC Berkeley	Shing-Tung Yau	Quantum condensed matter system and high energy theory; mathematical physics, topological phases of matter	ryan.thorngren
Sergiy Verstyuk	University of Chicago	Scott Kominers	Econometrics and quantitative economics; Economics, Finance, Machine Learning	verstyuk
Juven Wang	MIT	Shing-Tung Yau	Ultra Unification, Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory	jw
Yifan Wang	MIT	Shing-Tung Yau	String theory, supersymmetric and conformal quantum field theories, scattering amplitudes,holographic dualities, integrable systems, mathematical physics	yifanw
Tianqi Wu	NYU	Shing-Tung Yau	Discrete and computational geometry, complex analysis, discrete riemamm surfaces, and coupled dynamical systems on networks	tianqi
Thérèse (Yingying) Wu	UT Austin	Shing-Tung Yau	Graph cohomology, Comparison Theorems of Phylogenetic Spaces and Algebraic Fans; Differential Geometry and Mathematical Biology	ywu
Changji Xu	University of Chicago	Horng-Tzer Yau	Probability theory	cxu
Yang Zhou	Stanford University	Shing-Tung Yau	Algebraic geometry	yangzhou

A list of previous postdocs can be found here.