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Alex Kontorovich



Distinguished Professor and 2026-29 Chair
Department of Mathematics
Rutgers University
Hill Center Room 630
110 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Phone: (848)445-6753
Fax: (732)445-5530
Email: alex.kontorovich@rutgers.edu


Managing Editor
Journal of the Association for Mathematical Research

Scientific Board Member (2017-2026)
Quanta Magazine

2020-21 Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics
Dean of Academic Content
National Museum of Mathematics

Board of Directors and 2026-27 President
Association for Mathematical Research

Strategic Advisory Board
Lean Focused Research Organization

Executive Director
Rutgers MathCorps (See here for coverage of our first summer.)

Amazon Scholar
AWS Neuro-Symbolic AI Group

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Obligatory caveat: My research is supported by an NSF grant and a DARPA grant. In the past, it has been supported by a Simons Foundation Fellowship, a von Neumann Fellowship at IAS, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER grant, an NSF FRG grant, and a BSF grant. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Rutgers University and/or the National Science Foundation and/or DARPA and/or the Simons Foundation and/or the Institute for Advanced Study and/or the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and/or the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

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