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  Yilin Wang (IHES)

curriculum vitae

Affiliations

  • 07.2025-current    Associate Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 06.2022-06.2025   Junior Professor, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
  • 01.2022-05.2022   Strauch Postdoctoral fellow, The Analysis and Geometry of Random Shapes,  MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 09.2019-05.2022   C.L.E. Moore Instructor, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Education

  • 09.2015–06.2019   Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. ​
  • 09.2014–06.2015   M.Sc., Probability and Statistics, University Paris XI, Orsay, France.
  • 09.2012–06.2014   M.Sc., Fundamental Mathematics, University Paris VI, Paris, France.
  • 09.2011–06.2015   Élève Normalienne, Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France.
  • 09.2009–06.2011   Classe Préparatoire, Mathematics & Physics, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, France.​

Long term visits

  • 01.2017–06.2017 Visiting graduate student at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. 

Distinction and Grants

  • 2025 Simons Collaboration grant (co-PI, 2025-2029) on Probabilistic paths to Quantum Field theory
  • 2024 Salem Prize by Institute for Advanced Study
  • 2024 Invited speaker at European Congress of Mathematics, Seville, Spain
  • 2024 Invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Strasbourg, France
  • 2023 ERC Starting grant  (PI, 2024-2028) RaConTeich  Connecting Random conformal geometry and Teichmuller theory (1,499,938 EUR)
  • 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize  by Breakthrough Prize Foundation 
  • 2022 MSRI Strauch Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2020-2022  NSF award DMS-1953945 (PI)  Probabilistic and analytic aspects of the Loewner energy (172,713 USD)
  • 2020  ETH Medal  for outstanding PhD theses
  • ​2018  NCCR SwissMAP Innovator Prize to PhD students or postdocs for important scientific achievements
  • 2017  Swiss NSF Mobility grant (12,684 CHF​)

​Language Proficiency

  • English : Fluent
  • French : Fluent
  • Chinese : Native
  • ​German : Elementary
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