Rate My Professor Jayadev Athreya

Jayadev S. Athreya is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, where he also serves as a professor in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas. He specializes in ergodic theory and dynamical systems within mathematics, exploring connections to geometry, Teichmüller dynamics, translation surfaces, billiards, and number theory. Athreya earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Iowa State University with honors and distinction in 2000, M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2001, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2006 under advisor Alex Eskin. His academic career includes lecturer and Gibbs Instructor at Yale University (2006-2010), instructor at Princeton University (2007-2008), assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010-2015), and since 2015 at the University of Washington, promoted to full professor in 2020. He founded and directed the Illinois Geometry Lab (2011-2015) and the Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab, and holds leadership roles as Co-Director (International) of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) since 2022 and former Interim Director (2021-2022).