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Andrew Sutherland, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Sutherland of MIT, creater of the mathamatics website LMFDB.org photographed at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA

Sutherland is a principal research scientist in the mathematics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in 2007. He has played a leading role in many computationally focused research collaborations in number theory, including the Polymath project on Bounded Gaps Between Primes and the L-functions and Modular Forms Database. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2012 Selfridge prize, and he is a principal investigator in the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation.

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