David Ben-Zvi

David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently the Joe B. and Louise Cook Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin.

Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket New York. He graduated a Valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Ben-Zvi attended college at Princeton University.

Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.