Amol Aggarwal
Amol Aggarwal | |
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| Born | 1993 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BSc) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Awards | Morgan Prize (2016) Clay Mathematics Fellow (2020) IAMP Early Career Award (2021) Dubrovin Medal (2022) Rollo Davidson Prize (2022) Packard Fellowship (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Columbia University (2022) Stanford University (2025) |
| Thesis | Asymptotic Phenomena in the Six-Vertex Model |
| Alexei Borodin | |
Amol Aggarwal (born 1993) is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist. His research links combinatorics and probability theory to statistical mechanics.[1] He studies random matrices,[2] examines Gibbs measures for random tessellations, and[3] serves as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.[4][5]
Education and career
[edit]Aggarwal graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015.[6] He completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2020.[7] Alexei Borodin supervised his doctoral dissertation. The title was Asymptotic Phenomena in the Six-Vertex Model.
He joined the Columbia University mathematics department in 2020. He started as an assistant professor. The university awarded him tenure in 2022. He became an associate professor. He joined Stanford University in 2025. He now holds a full professor position.[6][5]
Recognition
[edit]Aggarwal attended Saratoga High School in California.[8] He became a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search in 2011.[9] His project dealt with discrete geometry. It improved an upper bound by Zoltán Füredi. Paul Erdős and Leo Moser posed the question in 1959. He published the results in 2015.[10] Officials named minor planet 27072 Aggarwal after him.[8] He received the Morgan Prize in 2016.[11]
Aggarwal received a Clay Mathematics Fellowship in 2020.[12] He won the IAMP Early Career Award in 2021,[3] and gained the Dubrovin Medal in 2022. The award came for contributions to integrable probability and random matrix theory. He also won the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2022.[2] The Packard Fellowship came to him in 2022, providing support over five years.[13] He serves as an invited speaker at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Aggarwal was born in 1993.[3] Alok Aggarwal is his father. Alok works as a theoretical computer scientist and entrepreneur. Sangeeta Aggarwal is his mother. She works as a hematologist and oncologist. His parents immigrated from India.[14][9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Past visiting professor Amol Aggarwal", Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, May 17, 2021, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 Amol Aggarwal Awarded Rollo Davidson Prize and Dubrovin Medal, Institute for Advanced Study, 2022, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 3 Toninelli, Fabio (August 2, 2021), The IAMP Early Career Award 2021: Amol Aggarwal (Columbia University) (PDF), International Association of Mathematical Physics, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 "Speakers", ICM 2026, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 "Amol Aggarwal", Stanford Profiles, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 "Meet Arts and Sciences Faculty Tenured in 2022", Office of the Provost, Columbia University, 2022, retrieved 2026-03-23
- ↑ Amol Aggarwal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 (27072) Aggarwal = 1987 RD4 = 1991 TD5 = 1998 SS117, IAU Minor Planet Center, retrieved 2026-03-23
- 1 2 Krieger, Lisa M. (August 13, 2016), "Children of recent immigrants lead America's scientific competitions", San Jose Mercury-News, retrieved 2026-03-23
- ↑ Aggarwal, Amol (2015), "On unit distances in a convex polygon", Discrete Mathematics, 338 (3): 88–92, arXiv:1009.2216, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2014.10.009, MR 3291870
- ↑ Amol Aggarwal to receive 2016 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize, American Mathematical Society, December 7, 2015, retrieved 2026-03-23 – via EurekAlert
- ↑ Amol Aggarwal - Research Fellows, Clay Mathematics Institute, 2020, retrieved 2026-03-23
- ↑ Amol Aggarwal Awarded The 2022 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, October 19, 2022, retrieved 2026-03-23
- ↑ "Dr. Alok Aggarwal", Scry AI, retrieved 2026-03-23
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