June Huh

June Huh (born 1983) is a Korean American mathematician and professor at Stanford University.[1] Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Princeton University.[2]

June Huh at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, in Rio de Janeiro

Huh was born in California but grew up in South Korea.[3] Early in his career he was mentored by Fields medalist mathematician Heisuke Hironaka, who went to Seoul National University as a visiting professor.[4] Huh obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Michigan, with a thesis written under the direction of Mircea Mustaţă.[5]

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.[6][3] With 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.[7]

Huh was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.

References
  1. "June Huh's Home Page". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  2. "June Huh". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  3. "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  4. Hartnett, Kevin (27 June 2017). "A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-12-15. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  5. June Huh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Combinatorics and more".
  7. Dunne, Edward (October 20, 2018), "Break on Through", Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society
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