Yang-Hui He Explained
Yang-Hui He (; born 29 September 1975[1]) is a mathematical physicist, who is a Fellow at the London Institute,[2] which is based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, as well as lecturer and former Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.[3] [4] He holds honorary positions as visiting professor of mathematics at City, University of London,[5] Chang-Jiang Chair professor at Nankai University,[6] and President of STEMM Global scientific society.[7]
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.[8] [9] He is one of the pioneers of the field of using AI for pure mathematics.
Yang is author of over 200 scientific publications[10] and is also a keen communicator of science, giving regular public lectures[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] including the Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse,[16] as well as podcasts.[17] [18] [19] His other outreach activities include acting an advisor to BMUCO[20] and being a fellow of the One Garden.[21]
Education and career
Yang received his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 1996, with Highest Honours (summa cum laude, Allen Shenstone Prize and Kusaka Memorial Prize), 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 (NSF Scholarship and MIT Presidential Award) under the supervision of Amihay Hanany.[22]
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.[23] 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.
Works
Yang has authored over 200 journal papers,[24] as well as several books, notably:
- Topology and Physics,[25] co-edited with C. N. Yang and Mo-Lin Ge, with contributions from Sir Michael Atiyah, Edward Witten, Sir Roger Penrose, Robbert Dijkgraaf et al., recommended by Book Authority as one of the 20 most influential books in quantum field theory of all time.[26]
- The Calabi-Yau Landscape: from geometry, to physics, to machine-learning,[27] textbook aimed at early PhD students, introducing mathematics to physicists, physics to mathematicians and machine-learning to both, the first textbook on the AI mathematician.
- Dialogues Between Physics and Mathematics: C. N. Yang at 100,[28] co-edited with Mo-Lin Ge, with contributions from Edward Witten, Sir Roger Penrose, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Alexander Polyakov, Vladimir Drinfeld et al., celebrating the 100th birthday of C. N. Yang.
- Machine Learning in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,[29] the first of its kind, as a collection of essays on the interactions between AI and pure mathematics/fundamental physics.
References
- Web site: Yang-Hui He. University of Oxford. 12 September 2023.
- Web site: Yang-Hui He. 2021-10-05. LIMS - London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. en.
- Web site: Professor Yang-Hui He. 2021-10-05. Merton College, Oxford.
- Web site: Professor Yang-Hui He. 2021-10-05. University of Oxford Department of Physics. en.
- Web site: 2020-01-31. Professor Yang-Hui He City, University of London. 2021-10-05. www.city.ac.uk. en-GB.
- Web site: Professor He, Chair Professor, Nankai. www.nankai.edu.cn.
- Web site: STEMM Global. stemm.global.
- Web site: Lu. Donna. AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths. 2021-10-05. New Scientist. en-US.
- Web site: Hutson. Matthew. Companies make it easier for scientists to use AI . 2021-10-05. Science Magazine. en-US.
- Web site: Yang-Hui He Publications . www.scholar.google.com.
- Web site: ToE . .
- Web site: Universes as Big Data . Youtube.
- Web site: 2014-05-09. Muß Es Sein? – Epigraph to a String Quartet. 2021-10-11. ICMS NEWS. en.
- Web site: 慕校. 2021-10-11. nk.umlink.cn.
- Web site: In conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. 2021-10-12. www.rigb.org. en.
- Web site: Geometry and Physics .
- Web site: Muss es Sein? . Know it all Wall.
- Web site: The 23 Challenges. onegarden.com.
- Web site: Paradigm interview . Machine-Learning the universe.
- Web site: BMUCO, a student NGO for outreach. www.bmuco.org.
- Web site: OneGarden. onegarden.com.
- Web site: Yang-Hui He - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. 2021-10-05. www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
- Web site: Ananthaswamy. Anil. String Theory may Predict the Universe. 2021-10-05. New Scientist. en-US.
- Web site: Yang-Hui He Publications . www.scholar.google.com.
- Book: Topology and Physics . 2019 . 10.1142/11217 . Yang . Chen Ning . Ge . Mo-Lin . He . Yang-Hui . 978-981-327-849-3 . 125570349 . World Scientific.
- Web site: best QFT books.
- Web site: The Calabi-Yau Landscape . 2021 . www.springer.com. arXiv preprint
- Book: Dialogues Between Physics and Mathematics . 2022 . www.springer.com. 10.1007/978-3-031-17523-7 . 978-3-031-17522-0 . 254556368 . Ge . He . Mo-Lin . Yang-Hui .
- Book: ML math-physics . 2023 . 10.1142/q0404 . He . Yang-Hui . 978-1-80061-369-0 . 251971587 .
External links