Background
Wood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both middle school teachers.
Wood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Sherry Eggers and Archie Wood, both middle school teachers.
She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2009 at Princeton University (under Manjul Bhargava) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, after spending 2 years as Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
Her father died of cancer when Wood was six weeks old. At her school, in addition to being a math whiz, Wood was a cheerleader and student newspaper editors During the 2003–2004 year she studied at Cambridge University.
She was also named the Deputy Leader of the United States. team that finished second overall at the 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad.
In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
While a high school student at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, Wood (then aged 16) became the first, and until 2004 the only female American to make the United States. International Mathematical Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2003, Wood graduated from Duke University where she won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Fulbright fellowship, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow in 2002. In 2004, she won the Morgan Prize for work in two topics, Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, making her the first woman to win this award.
American Mathematical Society.
