June Huh

June Huh (born 1983) is a Korean American mathematician and professor at Princeton University. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Princeton University, and a Professor at Stanford University.[2][3]

June Huh
June Huh at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, in Rio de Janeiro
Born1983
California, United States
NationalityKorean American
OccupationPrinceton University
Notable work
resolved the Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture
Spouse(s)Nayoung Kim[1]

Early life and education

Huh was born in California but grew up in South Korea.[4] Poor scores on elementary school tests convinced him that he was not very good at math. He dropped out of high school to focus on writing poetry after he became bored and exhausted by the routine of studying. Because of this, he has been described as a late bloomer.[5]

Early in his career he was mentored by Fields medalist mathematician Heisuke Hironaka, who went to Seoul National University as a visiting professor.[6] Huh obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Michigan, with a thesis written under the direction of Mircea Mustaţă.[7]

Career

In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Eric Katz, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.[8][4] With Karim Adiprasito, he is one of five winners of the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.[9]

He was winner of Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (U.S. Regional) in 2017. Huh was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, he was a recipient of the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science for physics and mathematics.

References
  1. Hartnett, Kevin (2017-06-27). "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  2. "June Huh's Home Page". Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  3. "June Huh". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  4. "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  5. "Late-blooming mathematician busts the child prodigy myth". Australian Financial Review. 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  6. Hartnett, Kevin (27 June 2017). "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  7. June Huh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. "Combinatorics and more".
  9. Dunne, Edward (October 20, 2018), "Break on Through", Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society
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