Terence Tao, born in Australia in 1975, has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair. His research spans harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Salem Prize (2000), Fields Medal (2006), MacArthur Fellowship (2007), Crafoord Prize (2012), and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2015). Tao is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 2020 to 2024.
JUNE 23, 2025