Liangyi Zhao

My proper name is Liangyi Zhao. I go by "Lee." I was born in Mukden Manchuria which is known as Shenyang in Chinese. I grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Kearny High School in Kearny New Jersey in June of 1995. I then earned the degree of Bachelor of Art with high honor from Rutgers University with majors in mathematics and physics and minor in economics in May of 1998. I subsequently enrolled into the Philosophiae Doctor program in mathematics at Rutgers University. I formally became a candidate for the degree after passing my Written Qualification Examination in Fall of 1999, foreign language examination in German in September of 2000 and Oral Qualification Examination on 17 April 2001.

I started my research on the inauspicious day of 11 September 2001 and wrote my thesis under the tutelage of Professor Henryk Iwaniec, specializing in analytic number theory. My research interests include the theories of large sieve, exponential sums, character sums, L-functions, sieve methods, elliptic curves and automorphic forms. I defended my thesis on 15 April 2003 and was formally awarded in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on 22 May 2003. Click here to see my mathematical ancestry.

Since the completion of my schooling, I held the position of Title X Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy during the academic year 2003-2004. The photo that appears on the frontpage is my official portrait at the academy. From July 2004 to June 2006, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics in the University of Toronto under the faculty sponsorship of Professor John B. Friedlander. During the academic year 2006-2007, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow under the faculty sponsorship of Professor Pär M. Kurlberg in the Institutionen för Matematik of the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm Sweden. From August 2007 to July 2013, I was have been an assistant/associate professor in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I have also held a number of visiting positions at various institutions, including Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Université de Montréal from February to April 2006, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto Canada in April 2008, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn Germany from January to June 2010, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in the months of June in 2009 and 2010 and the Department of Mathematics at Brigham Young University. I started working at the University of New South Wales in July 2015. Click here to read some of my mathematical writings.

To speak with no exaggeration, one of the loves of my life is the works of William Shakespeare. I have read all of his work and like some over the others. I am very fascinated by his deep insight into society and sometimes cynical and jocular attitude toward human folly. "Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"(Hamlet, II, ii, 508-509)

Travelling is another one of my passions. I have been to all but two of the seven continents and all but one of the oldest civilizations of the world. In addition, I have recently taken a great interest in photography. I have a Canon Elan-7E with a Canon 28-135mm Image Stabilizer Wide Angel Zoom/Telephoto lens with which I took the above photo at the Great Pyramids of Giza. I could only utter four words in front of the Pyramids: "I am not worthy."

Research Interest:

• Analytic number theory

Education:

• Ph. D., Rutgers University, May 2003
• B. A., Rutgers University, May 1998

Employment:

• Senior Lecturer, Univ. of New South Wales, Jul. 2015 -- Present
• Visiting Associate Professor, Brigham Young Univ., Aug. 2013 -- Aug. 2015
• Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological Univ., Mar. -- Jul. 2013
• Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological Univ., Jul. 2007 -- Feb. 2013
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH), Sep. 2006 -- Jul. 2007
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Toronto, Jul. 2004 -- Jun. 2006
• Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, Jul. 2003 -- Jun. 2004