Education 

B.S. Sun Yat-Sen University, 1983


M.S. Chinese Academy of Science, 1986 

Ph.D. Columbia University, 1991 (Advisor: Lucien Szpiro) 

Appointments 

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1991-1992 

Instructor, Princeton University, 1992-1994 

Assistant Professor, Princeton University 1994-1996

Associate Professor, Columbia University 1996-1998 

Professor, Columbia University 1998-2013 

Professor, Princeton university 2011– 

Editorship 

Algebra and Number Theory, 2013– 

Forum of Mathematics, 2015– 

Honors 

Sloan Research Fellowship, 1997


Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 1998 

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2009


Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011 

Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2016


Simons Fellow in Mathematics, 2016