Yu Deng is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago whose interests include nonlinear dispersive and wave equations, fluid dynamics, harmonic analysis, probabilistic theory for PDEs, and statistical physics. He took his Ph.D. from the Princton University in 2015 and held positions at the Courant Institute and the University of Southern California before joining the University Chicago in 2024. He is particularly acclaimed for his breakthrough work along with Zaher Hani and Xiao Ma of the University of Michigan related to Hilbert’s Sixth Problem on the axiomatic derivation of the laws of physics. A Gold Medalist at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad and a 2010 William Lowell Putnam Fellow, Deng the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and an ICBS Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics.