Rate My Professor Jason Miller

Professor Jason Miller holds the position of Reader in Probability in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as a Fellow of Trinity College. He received his BS with joint majors in mathematics, computer science, and economics from the University of Michigan in 2006 and his PhD in mathematics from Stanford University in 2011 under the supervision of Amir Dembo. Following his PhD, Miller was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research from 2010 to 2012 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Mathematics from 2012 to 2015, holding Schramm and NSF Fellowships and collaborating with Scott Sheffield. He joined the University of Cambridge in 2015 as a Reader in the Statistics Laboratory, later advancing to Professor.

Miller specializes in probability theory, focusing on random geometry, Schramm-Loewner evolution, Liouville quantum gravity, random planar maps, Gaussian free field, and stochastic processes from two-dimensional statistical mechanics. His landmark contributions include proving the equivalence between the Brownian map and the √(8/3)-Liouville quantum gravity sphere through a trilogy of papers with Scott Sheffield: 'Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map I: the QLE(8/3,0) metric' (Inventiones Mathematicae, 2019), 'Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map II: Geodesics and continuity of the embedding' (Annals of Probability, 2021), and 'Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III: the conformal structure is determined' (Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2021). Notable publications also encompass 'CLE percolations' (Forum of Mathematics, Pi, 2017) with Sheffield and Wendelin Werner, and 'Quantum Loewner evolution' (Duke Mathematical Journal, 2016) with Sheffield. These works have unified theories of random surfaces, providing metric definitions via SLE and elucidating scaling limits of discrete structures. Miller's accolades include the Rollo Davidson Prize (2015), Whitehead Prize (2016), Clay Research Award (2017), Doeblin Prize (2018), Leonard Eisenbud Prize and Fermat Prize (both 2023), Loève International Prize in Probability (2025), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2023), and election as Fellow of the Royal Society (2025). He delivered an invited lecture at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.