Zhenbin Yang  Member

E-mail: zhenbiny(AT)tsinghua.edu.cn

Education background

09/2014-09/2019 Doctor of Science   Princeton University

09/2010-07/2014 Bachelor of Science   University of Science and Technology of China

Experience

06/2023 - present     Member    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

09/2019 - 06/2023     Postdoc Fellow at Stanford Univeristy

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Quantum Gravity and AdS/CFT: I have been working on understanding the connection between quantum chaos and black holes. This has led to several interesting discoveries, most notably the use of spacetime wormholes to address various puzzles about black holes, such as Hawking’s black hole information paradox and the firewall paradox. Recently, I have been focusing on the role of quantum chaos in black hole interiors, supersymmetric black holes, and its implications for de Sitter space. In the past, I have worked on the duality between JT gravity and the SYK model, traversable wormholes, and quantum many-body teleportation.

Honors And Awards

Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship， Princeton University， 2018

It from qubit fellowship, 2019-2023

Frontier of Science Award, 2025

Academic Achievement

Selected papers:

Geoff Penington; Stephen H. Shenker; Douglas Stanford; Zhenbin Yang; Replica wormholes and the black hole interior, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022

Juan Maldacena; Douglas Stanford; Zhenbin Yang; Conformal symmetry and its breaking in two-dimensional nearly anti-de Sitter space, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2016, 2016(12)

Juan Maldacena; Douglas Stanford; Zhenbin Yang ; Diving into traversable wormholes, Fortschritte der Physik, 2017, 65(5): 1700034

Zhenbin Yang ; The quantum gravity dynamics of near extremal black holes, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019

Douglas Stanford; Zhenbin Yang; Firewalls from wormholes, arXiv 2208.01625