Gabriel Drew Carroll (born December 24, 1982) is a professor of economics at the

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. He was born to tech industry worker parents in Oakland. He graduated from

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with B.A. in

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and

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

in 2005 and received his doctorate in economics from

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in 2012. He was recognized as a

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and received numerous awards in

while a student. Carroll won two gold medals (1998, 2001) and a silver medal (1999) at the

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(IMO), earning a perfect score at the 2001

held in

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, shared only with American teammate Reid W. Barton and Chinese teammates Liang Xiao and Zhiqiang Zhang. Gabriel earned a place among the top five ranked competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition all four years that he was eligible (2000–2003), a feat matched by only seven others (

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(1968–1971),

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(1970–1973), Bjorn Poonen (1985–1988),

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(1988–1991), Reid W. Barton (2001–2004), Daniel Kane (2003–2006), and Brian R. Lawrence (2007–08, 2010–11). His top-5 performance in 2000 was particularly notable, as he was officially taking the exam in spite of only being a high school senior, thus forfeiting one of his years of eligibility in college. He was on the first place Putnam team twice (2001–02) and the second place team once (2003). He has earned awards in science and math, including the

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, has taught mathematics classes and tutorials, and plays the piano. He was a

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scholar in 2000. Carroll proposed Problem 3 of IMO 2009 and Problem 3 of IMO 2010. He also proposes problems to the USAMO such as problem 3 in 2007, 2008, 2010 and problem 6 in 2009. During the 2005–06 academic year, he taught English in Chaling,

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. He worked at the

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from 2006 to 2007 and was an assistant professor of economics, and then an associate professor of economics, at

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from July 2013 through December 2020.

Education

Gabriel Carroll is an alumnus of

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and graduated from

in 2005 with degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics. He graduated from the Economics Department at

in 2012, and spent one year at Microsoft Research as a postdoctoral researcher during 2012–2013.

Personal life

Carroll married Canadian economist Eva Vivalt in August 2019.

References

External links

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Carroll's websiteInternational Math OlympiadScience News Magazine
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