David Ben-Zvi

David Dror Ben-Zvi (born 1974) is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Early life and education David Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket, New York. He graduated a valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He then graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.

Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

Honors and awards Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, elected in inaugural class, 2012. Plenary Lecture, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Baylor University, 2009. London Mathematical Society Invited Lecture Series, Oxford, 2007. Princeton University Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Prizes, 1993 Brown Prize, 1994 Covington Prize, 1994 Miller Prize, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1993-1994.