Alex Iosevich named 2026 Simons Fellow in Mathematics
Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics, has been named a 2026 Simons Fellow in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation's Mathematical & Physical Sciences.
Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics, has been named a 2026 Simons Fellow in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation’s Mathematical & Physical Sciences. The Simons Fellow Program extends academic leaves to a full academic year, allowing more time to focus on research. Simons Fellows are selected based on their scientific accomplishments in the five years preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.
Professor Iosevich will continue his research program that seeks to unify classical theoretical directions, such as restriction theory, decoupling, spectral synthesis, spectral graph theory, and random trigonometric series, with industrial data science, especially data imputation, forecasting, and reinforcement learning - one of the pillars of modern artificial intelligence. Iosevich will also use the Simons Fellowship to facilitate creation of the programs similar to StemForAll at several mathematics departments around the country. This is an undergraduate program he has been running with Azita Mayeli (CUNY) and several University of Rochester colleagues for the past decade.