Alexander Gamburd

Alexander Gamburd is a mathematician at the City University of New York known for his work in spectral problems in number theory, probability, and Arithmetic combinatorics. He is a Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Life and career.
Gamburd earned his B.S degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He received his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from Princeton University, where his advisor was Peter Sarnak. In 2004, Gamburd became assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was promoted to full professor in 2008. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies from 2005 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2008. In 2011, Gamburd joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York as Presidential Professor of Mathematics.