Wei Dongyi, a mathematics genius born in the 1990s at Peking University and known as "Wei Shen" by netizens, has recently announced his latest employment status. According to information on the website of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University,Starting from February 2026, Wei Dongyi, a teacher from the college, will be officially appointed as a permanent associate professor of Peking University.
According to the relevant regulations released by the official website of the Ministry of Personnel of Peking University, the school has fully implemented a teacher employment system with the teaching and research series pre-appointment-permanent appointment system as the core.
Teaching and research positions consist of pre-appointment positions and permanent positions, including assistant professors, associate professors and professors.
At the same time, with the authorization and approval of the school, assistant professors and associate professors can simultaneously hold the academic title of associate researcher or researcher.
It is understood that in mid-January, the official websites of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park Management Committee issued the "Notification of the Evaluation Results of the 2025 Beijing Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Youth Zhongguancun Award".
in,Wei Dongyi was selected as a candidate for the "Zhongguancun Award for Outstanding Youth".
Wei Dongyi was born in Jinan, Shandong in 1991. He is an undergraduate in the Department of Mathematics at Peking University in 2010. He will stay at the school as an assistant professor after December 2019.He has won the International Mathematical Olympiad gold medal with perfect scores for two consecutive years. His main research areas are partial differential equations, geometric analysis, etc.
Wei Dongyi