Sly was a member of the Australian team at the 1999 and 2000 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning an honourable mention and a silver medal respectively.[1] He attended Radford College, where he was dux of the year in 2000.[2] He then studied at Australian National University, winning the University Medal in 2004,[3] earning a bachelor's degree, and in 2006 earning a M.Phil.[4]
After postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research, he joined the statistics faculty at Berkeley in 2011, and moved to Princeton University as a professor of mathematics in 2016.[6][7]
ContributionsEdit
Sly's work has included research on finding clusters in networks, the use of information percolation to analyze the "cutoff" phenomenon in which Markov chains exhibit a sharp transition to their stationary distribution, embeddings of random sequences, and phase transitions for random instances of the satisfiability problem.[4]
RecognitionEdit
Sly won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012.[8] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018 for "applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science".[4][7] He is the winner of the 2019 Loeve prize.[9]
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