Welcome to Yaolong Shen's webpage.
In Fall 2025 I am on job market.
For 2024-2026, I am a postdoc at University of Ottawa, my mentors are Prof. Alistair Savage and Prof. Hadi Salmasian.
For 2019-2024, I received my PhD in 2024 from the University of Virginia, under the supervision of Prof. Weiqiang Wang.
My CV is here.
I am interested in representation theory and diagrammatic categories.
Specifically, I study
algebraic representation theory: Lie (super)algebras, quantum (super)symmetric pairs, (twisted) yangians ,(i)Schur dualities,...
monoidal categories (and their module categories): oriented skein category, Kauffman category, category of webs,...
diagrammatic categorifications: KLR algebra, Hecke category ,Brauer category, ...
Things I am learning or want to learn:
3d mirror symmetry, coulomb branch, affine grassmanian slices
relative geometric Langlands
Koszul duality
cluster algebra and its categorification
bow variety, theta correspondence