Wenjun Zhao

PIMS–Simons Postdoctoral Fellow     Department of Mathematics     the University of British Columbia

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About me

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, associated with the Kantorovich Initiative, thanks to the PIMS–Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship. In Fall 2025, I will join Wake Forest University as a tenure-track assistant professor of mathematics.

From 2021-2024 I was the inaugural LFZ Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics (postdoctoral position) at Brown University. Before that, I received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016, and a Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University in 2021. My PhD advisor is Professor Esteban G. Tabak.

My research interests broadly encompass applied and computational mathematics and statistics. In particular, I am interested in optimal transport and its applications in computational biology, such as data analysis methods for single-cell transcriptomics and shape analysis techniques for biomedical imaging data. Besides research, I am passionate about teaching and outreach activities. I am honored to receive the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching from Brown, and postdoctoral award for outstanding teaching from UBC.