Yufei Zhao

Yufei Zhao is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).14 He specializes in combinatorics, focusing on extremal, probabilistic, and additive combinatorics, as well as graph theory, discrete geometry, and applications to computer science.14

Zhao joined MIT's mathematics faculty in July 2017 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.12 He received his dual SB degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT in 2010, an MASt in Mathematics from Cambridge in 2011, and a PhD from MIT in 2015.1

Some notable achievements and honors include:

• Recipient of the MIT Future of Science Award (2018)3
• Winner of the SIAM Dénes Kőnig prize (2018)1
• Sloan Research Fellowship (2019)2
• NSF CAREER Award (2021)2
• Edmund F. Kelly Research Award (2021)1

Zhao is known for his research contributions, including solving an open problem concerning independent sets in irregular graphs and contributing to a better understanding of the Green-Tao theorem.3 He has also authored a book titled "Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics: Exploring Structure and Randomness," published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.24

In addition to his research, Zhao is actively involved in mentoring students and runs the Putnam Seminar at MIT, overseeing the university's participation in the Putnam Competition.13 He received the First-Year Seminar Award in 2019 for his Putnam Seminar and the Outstanding UROP Mentor Award in 2020.1

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