Biography:Jan Vondrák
Jan Vondrák is a Czech applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He has been a professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 2015.[1] He was a research staff member in the theory group at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2009 to 2015.[1]
Vondrák completed a bachelor's degree in physics (1995) and an M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) in computer science at Charles University under advisor Martin Loebl.[1] He met mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani in 2004 in Boston.[2] Vondrák completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2005 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under advisor Michel Goemans.[1] He was a postdoctoral researcher in the theory group at Microsoft Research from 2005 to 2006.[1] From 2006 to 2009, Vondrák was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Princeton University.[1] He married Mirzakhani in 2008 on a mountain in New Hampshire.[2] They moved to California in 2009.[2] Their daughter Anahita was born 2011.[2] Mirzakhani died of breast cancer in 2017.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Vondrák, Jan (August 18, 2022). "Curriculum vitae". https://theory.stanford.edu/~jvondrak/data/cv.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Vondrák, Jan (July 2020). "In memoriam: Maryam Mirzakhani" (in en). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society (AMS)) 57 (3): 357–358. doi:10.1090/bull/1695. ISSN 0273-0979.
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