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

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

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. He obtained his Ph.D in mathematics from

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

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in Princeton and

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in 2012-2014, followed by a year at the

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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. Theoretical computer scientist

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said of Huang's ingenious two-page proof, "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

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in 2019 and a

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in 2020.

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