Amit Singer, the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics, and Professor of Mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Background:
Singer has been a member of Princeton University’s mathematics department and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics since 2008. He is also a member of the executive committee at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML).
Singer majored in physics and mathematics at Tel Aviv University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1997. From the same university, he earned a doctoral degree in applied mathematics in 2005. His thesis, titled “Diffusion Theory of Ion Permeation through Protein Channels of Biological Membranes,” won the Nessyahu Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics in Israel. In his academic career before joining Princeton, Singer pursued studies at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago during his graduate years. He was also a Gibbs Assistant Professor in applied mathematics at Yale University. During that time, he was a visitor at the Institute of Pure & Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Read more