Jan Vondrák
Czech-American applied mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Vondrák is a Czech applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He has been a professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 2015.[1] He was a research staff member in the theory group at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2009 to 2015.[1]
Vondrák completed a bachelor's degree in physics (1995) and an M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) in computer science at Charles University under advisor Martin Loebl.[1] He met mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani in 2004 in Boston.[2] Vondrák completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2005 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under advisor Michel Goemans.[1] He was a postdoctoral researcher in the theory group at Microsoft Research from 2005 to 2006.[1] From 2006 to 2009, Vondrák was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Princeton University.[1] He married Mirzakhani in 2008 on a mountain in New Hampshire.[2] They moved to California in 2009.[2] Their daughter Anahita was born 2011.[2] Mirzakhani died of breast cancer in 2017.[2]
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