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DAVAR KHOSHNEVISAN

Distinguished Professor

Mathematics

Orcid identifier0009-0007-8100-3906
  • Distinguished Professor
    Mathematics
  • (801) 581-3896 (Work)
  • The University of Utah, Department of Mathematics, 155 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112-0090, United States

BIO

D. Khoshnevisan received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1989 in Statistics. He then joined the faculty at MIT for one year and the faculty of the University of Washington for three years, before coming as Assistant Professor to the University of Utah Department of Mathematics in 1993. D. Khoshnevisan has been been an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visiting member of the Mathematics Research Institute at UC Berkeley and the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UCSB, Simons Visiting Professor at the Oberwolfach Institute in Germany, and Invited Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, the University of Paris and the University of Lille. He is a 2020 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2015 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), an IMS Medallion Lecturer (2018), and Professor of Mathematics (2001-2024) and Chair of the Mathematics (2017-2023) at the University of Utah. In 2024 he was appointed as Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Distinguished Professor
    Mathematics1 Jul 2024 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, Mathematics1 Jul 1993 - 30 Jun 1996
  • Associate Professor
    University of Utah, Mathematics1 Jul 1996 - 30 Jun 2001
  • Professor
    University of Utah, Mathematics, Salt Lake City, United States7 Jan 1996 - 30 Jun 2024
  • Eisenbud Professor
    Simons-Laufer Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, United StatesAug 2025 - Dec 2025
  • Visiting Member
    Kavli Institute for theoretical Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, United States1 Jan 2016 - 30 Jan 2016
  • Visiting Member
    Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, United States1 Oct 2015 - 30 Oct 2015
  • Simons Visiting Professor
    Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany1 Jun 2014 - 15 Jun 2014
  • Professeur Invité
    University of Lille, Mathematics, Lille, France1 Jun 2011 - 30 Jul 2011
  • Professeur Invité
    University of Paris 13, Laboratoire de Probabilies et modeles aleatoires, Paris, France1 Apr 2009 - 1 May 2009
  • Professeur Invité
    EPF Lausanne, Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland1 Apr 2001 - 1 Jun 2001
  • Professeur Invité
    University of Paris, 13, Laboratoire de probabilites, Paris, France1 Oct 2000 - 30 Oct 2000
  • Visiting Member
    Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, United States1998 - 1998

DEGREES

  • BS, Mathematical Sciences
    The Johns Hopkins University1984
  • MS, Mathematical Sciences
    The Johns Hopkins University1984
  • PhD, Statistics
    University of California, Berkeley1989

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Instructor
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics, Cambridge, United States1 Jul 1989 - 30 Jun 1990
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

FIELDS OF RESEARCH