Ruochuan Liu

Education and early life Liu first gained international recognition by winning a gold medal for China at the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad. He attended Peking University, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics. Liu then pursued his doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning his PhD in 2008 under the supervision of Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya.

Career After completing his PhD, Liu held a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan. He later returned to China, joining the faculty at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, where he now serves as Vice Dean and a Boya Distinguished Professor. In 2020, he received the China Youth Science and Technology Award. In 2024, he was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan Prize by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.