Biography:Lei Ni

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Lei Ni (born 1969) is a mathematician. He holds emeritus professor status at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2018.

Ni was born in 1969,[1] and from 1987 to 1993 attended Fudan University in China, from where he received a B.S. and M.S. degree in mathematics. He studied at the University of California, Irvine, from 1994 to 1998, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics,[2] advised by Peter Wai-Kwong Li.[3] Ni was an assistant professor at Purdue University from 1998 to 2000 and at Stanford University from 2000 to 2002, before moving to UC San Diego in 2002.[2]

From 2002 to 2005, Ni worked as an assistant professor at UCSD, and from 2005 to 2009 as an associate professor.[2] He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004.[4] Ni served as chair of the mathematics department from 2016 to 2020,[2] during which time, in 2018,[5] he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to geometric analysis, particularly to Ricci flow, and for mentorship".[6] Since 2025, Ni has been an emeritus professor with Distinguished Professor title,[2] in recognition of his career at the university.[7]

His research areas include geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and partial differential equations.[8] He has given talks on these topics to the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute.[9] His publications on the Ricci flow include a 2006 book in the Graduate Studies in Mathematics series,[10][11] and a four-part book in Mathematical Surveys and Monographs.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Ni, Lei, 1969-". Library of Congress. 2025-08-05. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006057655.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Lei Ni's Home Page". https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~lni/. 
  3. ↑ "Lei Ni". Mathematics Genealogy Project. https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=40047. 
  4. ↑ "Fellows Database" (in en). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. https://sloan.org/fellows-database. 
  5. ↑ Dillon, Cynthia (November 17, 2017). "UC San Diego Mathematics Multiplies Excellence by Three" (in en). UC San Diego. https://today.ucsd.edu/story/UC_San_Diego_Mathematics_Multiplies_Excellence_by_Three. 
  6. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. https://www.ams.org/grants-awards/fellows-list. 
  7. ↑ "Salary Programs and Scales". UC San Diego. https://aps.ucsd.edu/compensation/apo-salary.html#off-scale-and-above-scale-salary. 
  8. ↑ "Lei Ni". UC San Diego. https://math.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/lei-ni. 
  9. ↑ "Personal Profile: Lei Ni". Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. https://www.slmath.org/people/3346?reDirectFrom=link. 
  10. ↑ Chow, Bennett; Lu, Peng; Ni, Lei (2006). Hamilton’s Ricci Flow. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. 77. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-7369-3. https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=GSM/77. 
  11. ↑ Berg, Michael (2007-05-18). "Hamilton's Ricci Flow". Mathematical Association of America. https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/hamiltons-ricci-flow. 
  12. ↑ Chow, Bennett; Chu, Sun-Chin; Glickenstein, David; Guenther, Christine; Isenberg, James; Ivey, Tom; Knopf, Dan; Lu, Peng et al.. The Ricci Flow: Techniques and Applications. American Mathematical Society: 
  13. ↑ See reviews:
    • Baird, Paul (February 2008). "Book reviews: The Ricci flow and Hamilton’s Ricci flow" (in en). Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 40 (1): 176–179. doi:10.1112/blms/bdm088. 
    • Baird, Paul (August 2010). "Book reviews: The Ricci flow" (in en). Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 42 (4): 761–763. doi:10.1112/blms/bdq050. 



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