David Dror Ben-Zvi
Born	1974 USA
Nationality	American
Academic background
Education	B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Mathematics, Princeton University, 1994 Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University
Thesis	'Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems' (1999)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Texas, Institute for Advanced Study, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, The Geometry Center University of Minnesota
Website	http://www.math.utexas.edu/~benzvi

David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin.^[1]

Early life and education

David Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket New York. He graduated a Valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel.^[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

Honors and awards

• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, elected in inaugural class, 2012.
• Plenary Lecture, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Baylor University, 2009.
• London Mathematical Society Invited Lecture Series, Oxford, 2007.
• Princeton University Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Prizes, 1993 Brown Prize, 1994 Covington Prize, 1994 Miller Prize, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1993-1994.