| Robert D. Hough | |
| Birth Date: | June 27, 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Midland, Michigan, U.S. |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Stony Brook University |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University |
| Thesis Title: | Distribution problems in number theory |
| Thesis Year: | 2012 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Kannan Soundararajan |
| Known For: | Probability Theory, Number Theory |
Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability, and discrete mathematics. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University.
Hough holds BS in Math, MS in CS, and PhD in Math degrees from Stanford University. He completed his PhD under Kannan Soundararajan in 2012. Hough was a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom working with Ben Green from 2013 to 2015, and was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2015 to 2016.[1]
Hough joined Stony Brook University as an assistant professor in 2016 and has been an associate professor of mathematics since 2022.
Hough won the Mathematical Association of America's David P. Robbins Prize at the Joint Math Meetings in 2017.[2] The prize was given for finding the solution of a problem imposed by Paul Erdős.[3]
In February 2020, Hough won the Sloan Research Fellowship.[4] He also won a Trustees Faculty Award from Stony Brook University.[5]