Laureate

Hong Wang

Born 1991 · China · Female

Awards

  1. 2026

    Fields Medal

    Math

    For her work in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including applications of multiscale and decoupling techniques to the local smoothing conjecture for the planar wave equation, and major advances in Fourier restriction, Falconer distance sets, Furstenberg sets in the plane, and the Kakeya problem in three dimensions.