Sergei Gukov received his PhD from Princeton University in 2001 under the supervision of Edward Witten. Motivated by phenomenological applications, he works on understanding string compactifications on manifolds of reduced holonomy, such as Calabi-Yau four-folds. Sergei was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 2001.
Daniel Gottesman received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1997 under the supervision of John Preskill. Daniel started off working on black hole evaporation before becoming interested in quantum computers. His work focuses on quantum error-correcting codes. In particular, he studied a class of codes called stabilizer codes and showed that any stabilizer code could be used to perform fault tolerant quantum computation. Daniel was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of 20 months beginning January 2001.
Dennis Gaitsgory received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1997 under the supervision of Joseph Bernstein. His thesis, Automorphic sheaves and Eisenstein series, develops ideas of A. Beilinson, V. Drinfeld and G. Laumon that deal with the geometrization of the theory of automorphic forms. Dennis was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of four years beginning 2000.
Maria Chudnovsky received her PhD from Princeton University in 2003 under the supervision of Paul Seymour. Maria made significant contributions to the field of combinatorics and graph theory. While at Princeton, she solved — in collaboration with P. Seymour, N. Robertson, and R. Thomas — the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, one of the best known open problems in combinatorics. Maria was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning April 2003.
Alexei Borodin received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 under the supervision of Alexandre Kirillov. His research concentrates around asymptotic problems of representation theory of growing families of groups (like symmetric groups or unitary groups), and connections with enumerative combinatorics, random matrix theory, and integrable systems. Alexei was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of four years beginning July 2001.
Daniel Biss received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 under the supervision of Mike Hopkins. Daniel was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning June 2002