Robert D. Hough

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Robert D. Hough
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BornJune 27, 1985
Alma mater Stanford University
Known for Probability Theory, Number Theory
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions Stony Brook University
Thesis Distribution problems in number theory  (2012)
Doctoral advisor Kannan Soundararajan
Website math.stonybrook.edu/~rdhough/

Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability, and discrete mathematics. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University.

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Early life and education

Hough holds BS in Math, MS in CS, and PhD in Math degrees from Stanford University. He completed his PhD under Kannan Soundararajan in 2012. Hough was a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom working with Ben Green from 2013 to 2015, and was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2015 to 2016. [1]

Career

Hough joined Stony Brook University as an assistant professor in 2016 and has been an associate professor of mathematics since 2022. [1]

Achievements

Hough won the Mathematical Association of America's David P. Robbins Prize at the Joint Math Meetings in 2017. [2] The prize was given for finding the solution of a problem imposed by Paul Erdős. [3]

In February 2020, Hough won the Sloan Research Fellowship. [4] He also won a Trustees Faculty Award from Stony Brook University. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Robert Hough's home page". www.math.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  2. "David P. Robbins Prize". Mathematical Association of America .
  3. Montgomery, Hugh (1994). Ten lectures on the interface of analytic number theory and harmonic analysis. American Mathematical Society. ISBN   978-0821807378.
  4. "Mathematics Professor Robert Hough Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship". Stony Brook News. February 24, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  5. Ritter, Victoria (August 8, 2020). "Dow alum Hough receives fellowship". Midland Daily News . Retrieved August 8, 2020.