Xiangyu Zhou (Zhou Xiangyu, Chinese: 周向宇; pinyin: Zhōu Xiàngyǔ, born March 1965) is a Chinese mathematician, specializing in several complex variables and complex geometry.
He is known for his 1998 proof of the "extended future tube conjecture", which was an unsolved problem for almost forty years.
Zhou matriculated in 1981 at Xiangtan University, where he graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
During 1990 to 1992 he was on academic leave as a senior scientific member of the Steklov Mathematical Institute, where he was awarded in 1998 a Russian Doctor of Sciences degree.
[3] In 2013 he was elected an Academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences[2] and was a keynote speaker of the Abel Symposium.