Melanie Wood

Melanie Wood
Wood in 2019
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) AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory (2018)
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]}