Yang-Hui He
Yang-Hui He is a mathematical physicist, who is a Fellow at the London Institute, which is based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, as well as lecturer and former Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He holds honorary positions as visiting professor of mathematics at City, University of London, Chang-Jiang Chair professor at Nankai University, and President of STEMM Global scientific society.
Yang works on the interface between quantum field theory, string theory, algebraic geometry and number theory, as well as how AI and machine-learning help with these problems. He is one of the pioneers of the field of using AI for pure mathematics.
Yang is author of over 200 scientific publications and is also a keen communicator of science, giving regular public lectures including the Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse,
as well as podcasts.
His other outreach activities include acting as an advisor to BMUCO and being a fellow of the One Garden.
Education and career
Yang received his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 1996, with Highest Honours, joint with certificates in applied mathematics and in engineering physics. He received his Masters from University of Cambridge in 1997 with Distinction and then obtained his PhD from MIT in 2002 in the Center for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Amihay Hanany.After postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, in the group of Burt Ovrut, Yang joined the University of Oxford as FitzJames Fellow and Advanced Fellow of the STFC, UK, working closely with Philip Candelas. He remains a tutor at Merton College, Oxford when taking up his professorships at the University of London and Nankai University, and more recently, when he joined the London Institute.