Dimitri Kusnezov is an American physicist and academic who is the

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. He has published over 160 research papers and articles and has over 3600 citations according to

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Education

Kusnezov earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in physics and pure mathematics from the

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, a followed by a Master of Arts in physics from

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and a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics.

Career

From 1991 to 2001, Kusnezov worked as an assistant and associate professor at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Kusnezov joined the

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in 2001 and later served as a senior advisor to the secretary of the

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. Since February 2019, he has served as deputy under secretary of energy for AI and technology.

Selected publications

* 1999, D Kusnezov, A Bulgac, G Do Dang, Quantum levy processes and fractional kinetics, Physical review letters 82 (6), 1136 * 1996, VP Antropov, MI Katsnelson, BN Harmon, M Van Schilfgaarde, Spin dynamics in magnets: Equation of motion and finite temperature effects, Physical Review B 54 (2), 1019 *1990, D Kusnezov, A Bulgac, W Bauer, Canonical ensembles from chaos, Annals of Physics 204 (1), 155-185

References

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