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Core Points - Young mathematician Wang Hong won the 2025 Salem Prize, which is considered a precursor to the Fields Medal, with 10 out of 56 Salem Prize winners from 1968 to 2024 later receiving the Fields Medal [1] - Wang Hong also received the ICCM Mathematics Gold Award just a day before the Salem Prize announcement, making her the recipient of two significant awards in a short span [2][5] - Wang Hong is the first female tenured professor in the history of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) and the 14th tenured professor in mathematics at IHES, with 8 of the previous 13 having won the Fields Medal [8] Academic Background - Wang Hong was born in 1991 in Guilin, Guangxi, and studied at Peking University from 2008 to 2011, initially in Earth and Space Sciences before transferring to the Mathematics Department [5] - She obtained her engineering degree from École Polytechnique in 2014 and a master's degree from Paris-Sud University, followed by a Ph.D. from MIT in 2019 [5] - Wang has held positions at UCLA and NYU and is currently a tenured professor at IHES [7] Research Contributions - Wang Hong was awarded the Salem Prize for her contributions to solving major open problems in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, which are her primary research areas [8] - She has published multiple papers in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae [8] - In February of this year, she and Professor Joshua Zahl from Columbia University proved the long-standing Kakeya set conjecture in a 127-page paper [9]