Professor Ziyang Gao has been awarded the Compositio Prize for the period 2020-2022 for his paper, Generic rank of Betti map and unlikely intersections.

Gao will be honored at the Compositio Prize Symposium in Utrecht on Friday, November 14th, 2025. 

“The Compositio Prize is a prize awarded every third year by the Foundation Compositio Mathematica in recognition of an outstanding piece of mathematical research that is published in the journal Compositio Mathematica during a three year period (n-4, n-3, n-2) starting four years before the year (n) in which the prize is awarded.”

Learn more about Compositio Mathematica here.