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Akshay Venkatesh is an Australian mathematician and a professor at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.
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Born 21 November 1981 · Q176588
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“A lot of the time when you do math, you”
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Published “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” in International Journal of Information Management — cited 3,525 times.
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2019).
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Won Fields medal (2018).
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Was awarded the Fields Medal, commonly described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, becoming the second Australian (after Terence Tao) and the second person of Indian descent (after Manjul Bhargava) to be so honoured
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Was awarded the Fields Medal for his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory
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Awarded Ostrowski Prize (2017).
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Received the Ostrowski Prize, which is awarded every two years for "outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and in the foundations of numerical mathematics
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,185 times.
Awarded Infosys Prize (2016).
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As "looking for new patterns in the arithmetic of numbers"
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Published “Consumer Acceptance and Use of Information Technology: Extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology1” in MIS Quarterly — cited 12,057 times.
Was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Hyderabad) and spoke on the topic "Number Theory and Lie Theory and Generalisations
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Awarded SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2008).
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Received the US$10,000 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, given for "outstanding contributions to areas of mathematics influenced by the great Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan" and "only awarded to those under the age o
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Published “Technology Acceptance Model 3 and a Research Agenda on Interventions” in Decision Sciences — cited 6,016 times.
Awarded Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2007).
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Awarded Salem Prize (2007).
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Published “User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1” in MIS Quarterly — cited 31,378 times.
Published “A Theoretical Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model: Four Longitudinal Field Studies” in Management Science — cited 15,486 times.
Published “Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use: Integrating Control, Intrinsic Motivation, and Emotion into the Technology Acceptance Model” in Information Systems Research — cited 4,450 times.
Under Peter Sarnak, which he completed in 2002, producing the thesis "Limiting forms of the trace formula"
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Turning 13 before entering the University of Western Australia as its youngest ever student
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Whilst aged only 11, he competed at the 24th International Physics Olympiad in Williamsburg, Virginia, winning a bronze medal
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Born 1981-11-21.
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