Wang Hong

Hong Wang is a Chinese mathematician specializing in Fourier analysis and geometric measure theory. She currently serves as a permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in a joint position with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. She is best known for her work with Joshua Zahl announcing the solution to the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, a longstanding open problem in harmonic analysis and geometry.