Alex Kontorovich
Alex Kontorovich is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Rutgers University. He earned his BA from Princeton and his PhD from Columbia, and has held faculty positions at Brown, Stony Brook, and Yale. His research spans number theory, geometry, dynamics, formalized mathematics, and applications of AI. His honors include the American Mathematical Society’s Levi L. Conant Prize, a Sloan Research Fellowship, several Simons Foundation Fellowships, and a von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2026, he delivered a Special Plenary Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. Kontorovich is President of the Association for Mathematical Research. He serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Formalized Mathematics and on the scientific advisory boards of Quanta Magazine and the Lean Focused Research Organization. He is also active in public outreach. In 2020–21, he was the National Museum of Mathematics’ Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics. He founded the Rutgers branch of the Math Corps summer day camp and has collaborated with Veritasium, 3Blue1Brown, and other YouTube channels on videos collectively viewed more than 100 million times.
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