Rate My Professor Ngô Bao Châu

Ngô Bảo Châu serves as the Chair and Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Université Paris-Sud between 1992 and 1997. Prior to that, he received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from École Normale Supérieure Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie from 1990 to 1992. His professional trajectory encompasses serving as a CNRS Fellow at Université Paris-Nord from 1998 to 2004, Professor at Université Paris-Sud from 2004 to 2007, and Long-term Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, from 2007 to 2010. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2010 and has been the Scientific Director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics since 2011. Ngô Bảo Châu has mentored numerous PhD students, including Alexis Bouthier (graduated 2014, now Maître de Conférence at Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Shuyang Cheng (2016, postdoc at University of Michigan), Hồ Phước Quốc (2017, postdoc at IST Vienna), Daniel Johnstone (2017, postdoc at University of Minnesota), and Jingren Chi (2018).

Ngô Bảo Châu is renowned for proving the fundamental lemma in the theory of automorphic forms, earning the Fields Medal at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. His other awards include the Clay Research Award (2004), Oberwolfach Prize (2007), Sophie Germain Prize (2007), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012), Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012), and Foreign Member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris (2016). Key publications are "Le lemme fondamental pour les algèbres de Lie" (Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, 2010), "Fibration de Hitchin et endoscopie" (Inventiones Mathematicae, 2006), "Le lemme fondamental pour les groupes unitaires" (Annals of Mathematics, 2008), "Endoscopy theory of automorphic forms" (ICM 2010), "Kloosterman sheaves for reductive groups" (Annals of Mathematics, 2013, joint with J. Heinloth and Z. Yun), and "Faisceaux pervers, homomorphisme de changement de base et lemme fondamental de Jacquet et Ye" (Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, 1999). He delivered the ICM 2010 address and the Leonardo Da Vinci Lecture 2013 on arithmetic of certain integrable systems. Ngô Bảo Châu serves on the editorial boards of Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Compositio Mathematica, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, and Vietnam Journal of Mathematics.