Terence Tao, Ph.D.
Professor, James and Carol Collins Chair, College of Letters and Sciences, University of California, Los AngelesTerence Tao’s website
Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1975. He has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, having completed his Ph.D. under Elias Stein at Princeton University in 1996. Tao’s research areas include harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics and number theory. He has received many awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Fields Medal in 2006, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, the Crafoord Prize in 2012 and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Tao also holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA and is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2020 to 2024, he served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.