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applied mathematics, cryo-EM
United States

Biography

Amit Singer is a Professor of Mathematics, the Director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), and a member of the Executive Committee for the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) at Princeton University.
Singer received both the undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics (1997) and the PhD degree (2005) in Applied Mathematics from Tel Aviv University. He was a Gibbs Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at Yale University (2005-2008) before joining Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 2008.
Singer works on a broad range of problems in applied mathematics, focusing on theoretical and computational aspects of data science, and on developing computational methods for structural biology. Among the areas to which he has contributed are cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), computer vision, image analysis, diffusion maps, random graph theory, sensor networks, graph Laplacians, and diffusion processes. He works with a widely varied group of collaborators and graduate students in several disciplines, and his work is increasing the range of applicable mathematics.
Singer leads a research group that develops the mathematical foundation, algorithms, and open-source software for visualizing three-dimensional biological macromolecules using cryo-EM, an entirely general imaging method that unlike X-ray crystallography does not require crystallization, can capture molecules in their native states, and even map their conformational changes and flexible motions.
Singer’s list of prizes and honors includes SIAM Fellow (2022), the Simons Math+X Investigator Award (2017), a National Finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2016), Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery (2014), Simons Investigator Award (2012), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2010), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), and the Haim Nessyahu Prize for Best PhD in Mathematics in Israel (2007).

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Employment (4)

Princeton University: Princeton, US

2013 to present | Professor (Mathematics and PACM)
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Princeton University: Princeton, US

2010 to 2013 | Associate Professor (Mathematics and PACM)
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Princeton University: Princeton, US

2008 to 2010 | Assistant Professor (Mathematics and PACM)
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Yale University: New Haven, US

2005 to 2008 | Gibbs Assistant Professor (Applied Mathematics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, IL

2001 to 2005 | PhD (Applied Mathematics)
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Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, IL

1994 to 1997 | BSc (Mathematics and Physics)
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Professional activities (8)

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Philadelphia, US

2022 | SIAM Fellow
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Simons Foundation: New York, US

2017 | Math+X Investigator
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Blavatnik Family Foundation: New York, US

2016 | National Finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Palo Alto, US

2014 | Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery
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Simons Foundation: New York, US

2012 | Simons Investigator
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: New York City, US

2010 | Sloan Research Fellowship
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AFOSR: Arlington, US

2010 | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
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Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, IL

2007 | Haim Nessyahu Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics in Israel
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