Ken Ono

Ken Ono is a number theorist specializing, among other things, in integer partitions, modular forms, Umbral moonshine and the Riemann hypothesis. He is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia and is a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society. Ono received his Ph D in 1993 at UCLA and has received many awards including the Prose Award (Best Scholarly Mathematics Book), Association of American Publishers in 2018, NSF Director’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award in 2005, the Presidential Career Award (PECASE) in 2000 and National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998. He has also won a Sloan Fellowship a Packard Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was an associate producer and the mathematical consultant for the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity based on Ramanujan’s biography.