Featured academics
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Terence Tao
Widely regarded as one of the world's leading mathematicians, Tao works across harmonic analysis, combinatorics and number theory. His recent proof of the polynomial Freiman Ruzsa conjecture with Gowers, Green and Manners was rapidly formalised in Lean, a landmark for large scale collaborative and machine verified mathematics.
Lili Yang
Yang engineers hematopoietic stem cells into invariant natural killer T cells, creating off the shelf cancer immunotherapies. Her UCLA laboratory's work spans over 80 publications and 28 patents, has seeded two clinical trials and two biotech startups, and links stem cell biology, immunology and bioengineering across academia and industry.
Kathrin Plath
Plath studies how the epigenome controls cell identity, including X chromosome inactivation and reprogramming to pluripotency. Directing the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center's Epigenomics, RNA and Gene Regulation Program, she connects stem cell biology with cancer research, informing regenerative medicine and collaborative genomics efforts across UCLA and beyond.