Jian Ding
Jian Ding (Chinese: 丁剑) is a Chinese mathematician and probability theorist. He is a chair professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University, where he also serves as vice dean.[1] In 2023 he was awarded the Loève Prize.[2][3]
Education and career
[edit]Ding entered Peking University in 2002 and received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2006.[4] He earned his PhD in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011, under the supervision of Yuval Peres.[3][5]
After postdoctoral positions at the University of Washington and as a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Ding joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he became an associate professor in the Department of Statistics. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Gilbert Helman Professor in the Wharton School. In January 2022 he returned to Peking University as a chair professor.[3][4]
Research
[edit]Ding's research is in probability theory, in particular its interactions with statistical physics and theoretical computer science. His work has covered random walks, Gaussian processes, random constraint satisfaction problems, random planar geometry, spin models, and Anderson localization.[2][6] With Allan Sly and Nike Sun, he proved the satisfiability threshold conjecture for random k-SAT for large k.[7][8]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2015)[4]
- NSF CAREER Award (2015)[2]
- Rollo Davidson Prize (2017, shared with Nike Sun)[7][8]
- Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2022, joint lecture with Julien Dubédat and Ewain Gwynne)[9]
- Gold Medal of Mathematics of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (2022)[10]
- Loève Prize (2023)[2][6]
- IMS Medallion Lecture (2023)[11]
- Plenary speaker at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics (2024)[4]
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2025)[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ "北大6名学者喜获千万级研究资助". Yangcheng Evening News (in Chinese). 26 November 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Jian Ding wins 2023 Loève Prize". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 15 November 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Jian Ding Ph.D. 2011, Wins Loève Prize". Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Lecture Series in Statistics – Prof. Jian Ding" (PDF). Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore. January 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- ↑ "Jian Ding". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Ding Wins Loeve Prize" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 71 (2): 279–280. February 2024.
- 1 2 "Applied Probability Trust Prizes 2017" (PDF). Journal of Applied Probability. 54 (2). Cambridge University Press. 2017.
- 1 2 "2017 Rollo Davidson Prize Awarded". Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 64 (7): 768. August 2017.
- ↑ "Jian Ding, Julien Dubédat, Ewain Gwynne, Introduction to the Liouville quantum gravity metric". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 (PDF). Vol. 5. EMS Press. p. 4212.
- ↑ "Past Awards – ICCM Medal of Mathematics". International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- ↑ "Preview of Medallion Lecture: Jian Ding". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- ↑ "Congratulations to the 2025 Class of IMS Fellows!". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 5 May 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2026.