Background
Etingof was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and studied in the Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum Number.
Etingof was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and studied in the Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum Number.
He received his Master of Surgery in applied mathematics from the Oil and Gas Institute in Moscow in 1989 and then went to the United States of America in 1990. In 1994 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics at Yale University under Igor Frenkel with thesis Representation Theory and Holonomic Systems. After his Doctor of Philosophy, he became Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University and in 1998 an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
145 in 1981-1984, and at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1984-1986. Since 2005 he is a Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Etingof does research on the intersection of mathematical physics (exactly integrable systems) and representation theory, e.g. quantum groups. In 1999 he was a Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
In 2002 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (On the dynamical Yang–Baxter equation).
He is a Fellow of the In 2010, together with Slava Gerovitch he co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program for Research In Mathematics, Engineering and Science (PRIMES) for high school students, and has since served as its Chief Research Advisor.
American Mathematical Society.