معرفی
Lena Ji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD from Princeton University (2021) and a B.A. from Columbia University (2016). Her research focuses on Algebraic Geometry, particularly Fano varieties, rationality questions, and characteristic p > 0 settings. She has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Michigan, including an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Education:
- PhD in Mathematics, Princeton University (2016–2021)
- B.A. in Mathematics, Columbia University (2012–2016)
- Exchange Scholar, UC Berkeley (2019)
Her research interests include birational geometry, moduli spaces, and arithmetic aspects of algebraic varieties. She has contributed to understanding symmetries of Fano varieties, rationality criteria for threefolds, and the Noether-Lefschetz theorem in positive characteristic. Her work often intersects with number theory and commutative algebra.
Awards include the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–2024), the Oscar Zariski Scholar (2025–2026), and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2018–2021). She has been an invited speaker at conferences such as the Mathematical Congress of the Americas (2025) and the Oberwolfach Workshop (2024).
Ji is actively involved in mentorship and service: she organizes seminars at UIUC, co-organized the Stacks Project Workshop (2023), and has mentored undergraduate research (e.g., REU programs). She teaches courses like Fundamental Mathematics (Math 347) and has contributed to expository works in algebraic geometry.
