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Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician (born 1969)
Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Окунько́в, Andrej Okun'kov) (born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at the Columbia University and the academic supervisor of HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics.[1] In 2006, he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."[2]