Xinwen Zhu

His work deals primarily with geometric representation theory and in particular the Langlands program, tying number theory to algebraic geometry and quantum physics.

According to the American Mathematical Society, "[Zhu] studies the geometry and topology of flag varieties of loop groups and applies techniques from the geometric Langlands program to arithmetic geometry.

Zhu, Wei Zhang, Xinyi Yuan and Zhiwei Yun are frequent collaborators.

[5] In 2019 he received the Morningside Medal jointly with Zhiwei Yun.

[6] Zhu won the 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Breakthrough Prize "For work in arithmetic algebraic geometry including applications to the theory of Shimura varieties and the Riemann-Hilbert problem for p-adic varieties."