Name：Yao Jiayan
Professional：Professor
Email：jyyao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
1987-1991 Wuhan University, Bachelor in math
1991-1992 Université Bordeaux I, DEA in math
1992-1996 Université Bordeaux I, Ph. D. in math
2002-2003 Université Paris-sud, Habilitation in math-computer
2006-now，Full Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University,
2004-2006, Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Wuhan University
1997-2004, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Wuhan University
1. Number theory and related topics，especially transcendental number theory and analytic number theory over function fields
2. p-adic dynamical systems
3. Theory of finite automata and applications in number theory
1. Undergraduate courses: mathematical analysis，linear algebra，modern algebra，commutative algebra，advanced calculus, Riemann integrals and applications in uniform distribution modulo one, algebraic geometry
2. Graduate courses: basic number theory，geometric measure theory，substitutions and finite automata, formal power series over finite fields and transcendence，finite automata and information transmission，theory of matrices and applications，algebraic geometry
1. D. S. Thakur, Z.-Y. Wen, J.-Y. Yao, and L. Zhao, Transcendence in positive characteristic and special values of hypergeometric functions. J. Reine Angew. Math. 657 (2011), 135-171.
2. A.-H. Fan, M.-T. Li, J.-Y. Yao, and D. Zhou, Strict ergodicity of affine p-adic dynamical systems on Zp. Adv. Math. 214 (2007), 666-700.
3. J.-Y. Yao, Carlitz-Goss gamma function, Wade's method, and transcendence. J. Reine Angew. Math. 579 (2005), 175-193.
