Xinyi Yuan

Xinyi Yuan (袁新意) is an algebraist and number theorist who is currently an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Yuan's research interests include Arakelov geometry, Diophantine equations, Shimura varieties and automorphic forms. In particular, his work focuses on arithmetic intersection theory, algebraic dynamics, Diophantine equations and special values of L-functions.

Yuan is from Macheng, Huanggang, Hubei, and graduated from Huanggang Middle School in 2000. That year, he received a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Yuan obtained his A.B. in mathematics from Peking University in 2003 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Columbia University in 2008 under the direction of Shou-Wu Zhang. His article "Big Line Bundles over Arithmetic Varieties," published in Inventiones Mathematicae, demonstrates a natural sufficient condition for when the orbit under the absolute Galois group is equidistributed.

He spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and Harvard University before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2012.