Hong Wang Awarded Salem Prize and ICCM Gold Medal of Mathematics

October 30, 2025

Hong Wang, Professor of Mathematics, has received two notable prizes for her recent work on a proof of the Kakeya set conjecture. 

Professor Wang was awarded the 2025 Salem Prize by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. The prize recognizes a young mathematician who is judged to have done outstanding work on harmonic analysis and related topics. Professor Wang received this year's award "for her role in solutions to major open problems in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory."

Professor Wang also recived the 2025 ICCM Gold Medal of Mathematics, given by the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians in recognition of "outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descendent under the age of 45 for their achievements in the research of pure and applied mathematics, and for their great contributions to the development of mathematics."