Hao Huang is a mathematician known for solving the sensitivity conjecture. Huang is currently an associate professor in the mathematics department at

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

. Huang received a B.S. degree in

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in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from his dissertation titled ''Various Problems in Extremal Combinatorics'' from the

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(UCLA) in 2012 advised by Benny Sudakov. His postdoctoral research was done at the

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and DIMACS at

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in 2012-2014, followed by a year at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the

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. Huang then became an assistant professor from 2015 to 2021 in the Department of Mathematics at

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. In July 2019, Huang announced a breakthrough, which gave a proof of the sensitivity conjecture. At that point the conjecture had been open for nearly 30 years, having been posed by

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and Mario Szegedy in 1992. Huang has received positive attention for his discovery, as theoretical computer scientist

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described, "I find it hard to imagine that even God knows how to prove the Sensitivity Conjecture in any simpler way than this." Huang received an NSF Career Award in 2019 and a

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in 2020.

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