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Email: dakane@ucsd.edu
Education
Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University, 2011
Biography
Daniel Kane was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University on an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Kane has a dual appointment with CSE. Prior to Stanford, he attended graduate school in mathematics at Harvard University (Ph.D. '11, MS '08). Before that, Kane received two BS degrees at MIT in 2007, one in mathematics with computer science, the other in physics.
Honors
In 2026, Daniel Kane and coauthors won the Godel Prize for his work on computational statistics. He has also won best paper awards at the Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) 2013, Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 2010, and best student paper at CCC in 2010. As an undergraduate, Kane was a 4-time Putnam Fellow and won the AMS/MAA/SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize. He is also a two-time IMO gold medal winner.