Melanie Wood | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Indianapolis, Indiana |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Duke University Trinity College, Cambridge Princeton University |
Awards | Morgan Prize (2004) NSF CAREER Award (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Stanford University University of Wisconsin University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
Thesis | Moduli spaces for rings and ideals (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | Manjul Bhargava |
Melanie Matchett Wood (born 1981[1]) is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University[2] who was the first woman to qualify for the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her PhD in 2009 at Princeton University (under Manjul Bhargava). Previously, she was Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and spent 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
She is a number theorist; more specifically, her research centers on arithmetic statistics, with excursions into related questions in arithmetic geometry and probability theory.[citation needed]