Prof. Terence Tao
James and Carol Collins chair, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Photo Copyright - UCLA Newsroom
Prof. Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University and in 1992, he won a Postgraduate Fulbright Scholarship to undertake research in mathematics at Princeton University, USA. From 1992 to 1996, Prof. Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his Ph.D. at the age of 21. He became a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999.
Tao has published nearly 350 research papers and 18 books. Tao's areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, and analytic number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Bochner Prize in 2002, the Fields Medal in 2006, the MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, the Waterman Award in 2008, the Nemmers Prize in 2010, the Crafoord prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Tao also currently holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences (Corresponding Member), the National Academy of Sciences (Foreign member), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.