Dr. Yang-Hui is a professor of mathematics at City, University of London and concurrently hold the Chang-Jiang Endowed Chair Professorship in physics at Nankai University,China and lecturer and former Fellow at Merton College University of Oxford. He is a mathematical physicist working on various interfaces between geometry and theoretical physics. 

Dr.Yang-Hui He is particularly interested in aspects of algebraic geometry in application to, and interacting with, gauge theory as well as string theory, such as Calabi-Yau manifolds, holographic correspondences and string phenomenology. He is also interested in the dialogue between number theory, graph representation theory and gauge theories.