Terence Tao

Terence Chi-Shen Tao
Tao at March 2006 Erdős Memorial Conference in Memphis, Tennessee
Born	(1975-07-17) 17 July 1975 (age 41) Adelaide, South Australia
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	Australia United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Alma mater	Flinders University Princeton University
Thesis	Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Elias M. Stein
Known for	Green–Tao theorem Erdős discrepancy problem Compressed Sensing Tao's inequality Kakeya conjecture Horn Conjecture
Notable awards	List Salem Prize (2000) Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002) Clay Research Award (2003) Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005) Ostrowski Prize (2005) Levi L.Conant Prize (2005) Fields Medal (2006) MacArthur Award (2006) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006) Sloan Fellowship (2006) Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) Alan T. Waterman Award (2008) Onsager Medal (2008) King Faisal International Prize (2010) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2010) Polya Prize (2010) Crafoord Prize (2012) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) Royal Medal (2014) PROSE Award (2015)
Website www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/

Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (simplified Chinese: 陶哲轩; traditional Chinese: 陶哲軒; pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān) (born 17 July 1975, Adelaide), is an Australian-American mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. As of 2015^[update], he holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tao was a co-recipient of the 2006 Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

Tao's father, Dr. Billy Tao (Chinese: 陶象國; pinyin: Táo Xiàngguó), was a pediatrician who was born in Shanghai and earned his medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Hong Kong in 1969. Tao's mother, Grace (Chinese:梁蕙蘭, English: Leung Wai-lan), is from Hong Kong; she received a first-class honours degree in physics and mathematics at the University of Hong Kong. She was a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics in Hong Kong. Billy and Grace met as students at the University of Hong Kong. They then emigrated from Hong Kong to Australia.