Wenjun Zhao
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
Contact
127 Manchester Hall, PO Box 7388, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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About me
I am an assistant professor of mathematics at Wake Forest University.
I held a PIMS–Simons Fellowship from 2024-2025 at the University of British Columbia, associated with the Kantorovich Initiative. 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 have received the postdoctoral award for outstanding teaching from UBC (departmental award given to two postdocs annually), and Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching from Brown (a university-wide award presented to 2–3 faculty members each year).