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University of California, Los Angeles
Terence Tao is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has won several awards, including the 2006 Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was named a Simons Investigator in Mathematics in 2012.
