Terence Tao

Terence Tao
Terence Tao
Traditional Chinese	陶哲軒
Simplified Chinese	陶哲轩
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Táo Zhéxuān
IPA	[tʰǎʊ ʈʂɤ̌.ɕyán]
Wu
Romanization	Dau2 Tseq4 Xi1 (Shanghainese)
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Tòuh Jit-hīn
Jyutping	Tou4 Zit3 Hin1
IPA	[tʰɔw˩ tsit̚˧.hin˥]

Terence Tao
FAA FRS
Terence Tao FAA FRS
	Tao at UCLA
Born	Terence Chi-Shen Tao; 17 July 1975; Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Citizenship	Australia; United States;
Education	Flinders University (BSc, MSc); Princeton University (PhD);
Known for	Partial differential equations, analytic number theory, random matrices, compressed sensing, combinatorics, dynamical systems
Spouse	Laura Tao
Children	2
Awards	Fields Medal (2006) List Salem Prize (2000); Bôcher Memorial Prize (2002); Clay Research Award (2003); Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005); Ostrowski Prize (2005) ; Levi L. Conant Prize (2005); MacArthur Award (2006); SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006); Sloan Fellowship (2006); Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) ; Alan T. Waterman Award (2008); Onsager Medal (2008); King Faisal International Prize (2010); Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2010) ; Pólya Prize (2010); Crafoord Prize (2012); Simons Investigator (2012); Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) ; Royal Medal (2014); PROSE Award (2015); Riemann Prize (2019); Princess of Asturias Award (2020); Bolyai Prize (2020); IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2021); Global Australian of the Year Award (2022) ; Grande Médaille (2023); Best Paper Award (2023); Alexanderson Award (2023); James Madison medal (2025) ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Harmonic analysis Number theory Statistics Combinatorics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Three Regularity Results in Harmonic Analysis (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Elias M. Stein
Doctoral students	Monica Vișan, Tim Austin
Website	University site; Personal blog; Microblog site; YouTube channel;

Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician. He is a Fields medalist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His published research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing, and analytic number theory.

Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.