Sug Woo Shin (; born 1978) is a professor of mathematics at the

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working in

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, and the

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Education

From 1994 to 1996 when he was in Seoul Science High School, Shin won two gold medals (including a perfect score in 1995) and one bronze medal while representing South Korea at the

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. He graduated from

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with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in 2000. He received his PhD in mathematics from

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in 2007 under the supervision of Richard Taylor.

Career

Shin was a member of the

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from 2007 to 2008, a Dickson Instructor at the

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from 2008 to 2010, and again a member at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2010 to 2011. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at the

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from 2011 to 2014. In 2014, Shin moved to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley as an associate professor. In 2020, Shin became a full professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Shin is a visiting KIAS scholar at the

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and a visiting associate member of the Pohang Mathematics Institute.

Research

In 2011, Michael Harris and Shin resolved the dependencies on improved forms of the Arthur–Selberg trace formula in the conditional proofs of generalizations of the Sato–Tate conjecture by Harris (for products of non- isogenous

elliptic curve In mathematics, an elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point . An elliptic curve is defined over a field and describes points in , the Cartesian product of with itself. If the ...

s) and Barnet-Lamb–Geraghty–Harris–

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(for arbitrary non- CM holomorphic

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s of weight greater than or equal to two).

Awards

Shin received a

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in 2013. Shin received a Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2025 for his contributions to the Langlands Program.

Selected publications

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shin, Sug Woo 1978 births Living people People from Seoul 20th-century South Korean mathematicians 21st-century South Korean mathematicians Number theorists University of California, Berkeley faculty Harvard University alumni Seoul National University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty University of Chicago faculty Sloan Research Fellows International Mathematical Olympiad participants Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Science