Xuhua He (, born 1979) is a Chinese mathematician and Chair Professor at the

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Education and career

In 2001, He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

. In 2005, he earned his PhD from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT) with the thesis ''Some subvarieties of the De Concini-Procesi compactification'' under advisor

George Lusztig George Lusztig (born ''Gheorghe Lusztig''; May 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics f ...

. As a postdoc research fellow, He was at the

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for the academic year 2005–2006 and Simons Instructor at the

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from 2006 to 2008. At

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he was an assistant professor from 2008 to 2012 and an associate professor from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 he was a professor at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. In 2019 he became the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mathematics at the

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and joined the

as a Chair Professor in 2023. For the 2016–2017 academic year, He was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2017 he was a Simons Visiting Professor at the

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Sorbonne Paris North University () is a public university based in Paris, France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris, in the munici ...

(Paris 13 University). In 1996, He won a gold medal at the

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. In 2013, he received the

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in gold. In 2018, in Rio de Janeiro he was an invited speaker with talk ''Some results on affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties'' at the

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. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.

Selected publications

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References

External links

* (with links to selected papers/preprints) * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:He, Xuhua 1979 births Living people 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians Academic staff of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Algebraic geometers Chinese expatriates in the United States Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Peking University alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society