Jennifer Balakrishnan

Jennifer Balakrishnan
Jennifer Balakrishnan
	Jennifer Balakrishnan (2018)
Alma mater	Harvard University; MIT;
Awards	Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2022); AWM-Microsoft Research Prize (2022); NSF CAREER Award (2020); Sloan Fellowship (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Boston University
Thesis	Coleman integration for hyperelliptic curves: algorithms and applications (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Kiran Kedlaya
Website	math.bu.edu/people/jbala/

Jennifer Shyamala Sayaka Balakrishnan is an American mathematician known for leading a team that solved the problem of the "cursed curve", a Diophantine equation that was known for being "famously difficult". More generally, Balakrishnan specializes in algorithmic number theory and arithmetic geometry. She is a Clare Boothe Luce Professor at Boston University.