James McKernan, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego![Portrait photo of James McKernan](https://simonsfoundation.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/10170921/N4A3618.jpg?auto=format&w=120&h=120&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=90)
James McKernan, in collaboration with Caucher Birkar, Paolo Cascini, and Christopher D. Hacon, has established one of the cornerstones of the Minimal Model Program: the finite generation of canonical rings in all dimensions.