Lingjiong Zhu
EmploymentÂ
Professor (August 2024-) Florida State University
Thinking Machines Eminent Scholar Chair (January 2024-) Florida State University
Associate Professor (August 2020-July 2024) Florida State University
Assistant Professor (August 2015-July 2020) Florida State University
Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor (January 2014-July 2015) University of Minnesota
Intern Associate (June 2013-December 2013) Morgan Stanley, New York
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics (2008-2013) New York University
Ph.D. Advisor S.R.S. Varadhan
B.A. in Mathematics, First-Class Honours (2005-2008) University of Cambridge
Shanghai High School (2002-2005)
Grants and Awards
2022-2025 NSF Grant DMS-2208303 (PI), National Science Foundation
2023 Winner of the MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award, MSOM Society
2023 Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Florida State University
2022 Developing Scholar Award, Florida State University
2021-2024 NSF Grant DMS-2053454 (PI), National Science Foundation
2019-2023 Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant (PI), The Simons Foundation
2016-2019 NSF Grant DMS-1613164 (PI), National Science Foundation
2014-2016 AMS-Simons Travel Grant (PI), American Mathematical Society
2013 Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation, Courant Institute, New York University
2008-2013 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University
2008 Stumbles Prize & Senior 1912 Scholarship, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge