Richard Canary

Richard Douglas Canary (born in 1962) is an American mathematician working mainly on low-dimensional topology. He is a professor at the University of Michigan.^[1]

Richard Douglas Canary
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Awards	Sloan Research Fellow (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Low-dimensional topology
Institutions	University of Michigan
Thesis	Hyperbolic Structures on 3-Manifolds with Compressible Boundaries  (1989)
Doctoral advisor	William Paul Thurston

Canary obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 under the supervision of William Paul Thurston, with the thesis Hyperbolic Structures on 3-Manifolds with Compressible Boundaries.^[2]

He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1993.^[3]

In 2015 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry as well as for service and teaching in mathematics."^[4]