Vu Ha Van, Prof.

Prof. Vu Ha Van was born in Hanoi (Vietnam) in 1970. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University (New Haven) in 1998 under the direction of László Lovász. After working at IAS (Princeton), Microsoft Research (Redmond), UCSD (San Diego) and Rutgers (New Brunswick), he went back to Yale in 2011, where he holds the Persey F. Smith Chair in Mathematics.

Prof. Vu Ha Van was awarded the Polya Prize (2008, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) for his works in probability and the Fulkerson Prize (2012, American Math. Society) for his work in combinatorics. In 2007, he led the special program Arithmetic Combinatorics at the Institute for Advanced study (Princeton).  In 2012, he was a Medallion lecturer at the 8th World congress in Probability and Statistics (Istanbul). In 2014, he was an invited speaker at the Internation Congress of Mathematicians (Seoul).  He is a Fellow of the American Math. Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Prof. Vu has co-authored more than 30 research papers with Terence Tao.