Chenyang Zhao – Imperial College London

About

I am an MSci Mathematics student at Imperial College London specializing in computational Algebraic Geometry.

GameTheory Package (Nov 2024–May 2025)
Supervisor: Dr Irem Portakal, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
Developing the GameTheory package in Macaulay2, focusing on totally mixed Nash equilibria.
Package Documentation · Workshop
UROP: Algebraic Geometry (Jun 2024–Sep 2024)
Supervisor: Dr Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Imperial College London
Investigated elliptic curves over finite fields and cryptographic applications.
Notes
M2R: Dynamics on Homogeneous Spaces (May 2024–Jun 2024)
Supervisor: Dr Marie-Amelie Lawn, Imperial College London
Presented Ratner’s Theorem proofs and visualized Margulis’ Theorem using Python.
Paper

TMT 2025: Algebraic Geometry in Game Theory & Macaulay2 Package Development (Link) – Online, Mar 2025
Undergraduate Colloquium: Algebraic Geometry in Game Theory – Imperial College London, Jan 2025
3-Minute UROP Talks: Algebraic Geometry and Cryptography – Imperial College London, Oct 2024

Programming: Python · Julia · Macaulay2 · R · LaTeX · Git · HTML · CSS

Software: Mathematica · Emacs · VS Code · Excel · PowerPoint

Languages: English (Professional) · Mandarin (Native) · French · Turkish · Shanghainese

Solo backpacked across 40+ countries. Outdoor sports enthusiast with plans to climb more mountains—both on Earth and in mathematics.