June Huh
June Huh (born 1983) is a Korean American mathematician and professor at Princeton University. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Princeton University, and a Professor at Stanford University. Early life and education. Huh was born in California but grew up in South Korea. Poor scores on elementary school tests convinced him that he was not very good at math. He dropped out of high school to focus on writing poetry after he became bored and exhausted by the routine of studying. Because of this, he  has been described as a late bloomer. Early in his career he was mentored by Fields medalist mathematician Heisuke Hironaka, who went to Seoul National University as a visiting professor. Huh obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Michigan, with a thesis written under the direction of Mircea Mustaţă. Career. In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Eric Katz, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. With Karim Adiprasito, he is one of five winners of the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated  with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was winner of Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (U.S. Regional) in 2017. Huh was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, he was a recipient of the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science for physics and mathematics.