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Scripps College

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5.05/4/2026

Makes complex topics easy to understand.

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Winston Ou serves as Co-Director and Associate Professor of Mathematics at Scripps College. He earned an A.B. in Mathematics magna cum laude from Princeton University and both an S.M. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. His academic career began as a Lecturer at the University of Chicago from 1993 to 2001, where he received four nominations for the Physical Sciences Division Teaching Award in 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2001. Following this, he held positions as Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University from 2001 to 2004, where he was nominated twice for the Students' Choice Outstanding Teacher Award in 2003 and 2004 and once for the AΛΔ Honor Society Teaching Award in 2002; Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University from 2004 to 2005; Visiting Researcher at the Center of Excellence at Keio University in 2005; and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications from 2005 to 2006. Ou joined Scripps College thereafter and has taught a wide range of courses, including Calculus (single and multi-variable, standard and honors), Linear Algebra, Complex Analysis, Principles of Real Analysis, and Core I: Culture, Knowledge, and Representation.