Education
Vu graduated at the Eötvös University, Budapest, in 1994, his Master of Science
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Van Vu
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Career
Thesis supervisor was Tamás Szőnyi. He worked as a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study and Microsoft Research (1998-2001). He joined the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor in 2001 and was promoted to full professor in 2005.
In Fall 2005, he moved to Rutgers University and stayed there until he joined Yale in Fall 2011.
Vu was a member at Institute for Advanced Study on three occasions (1998, 2005, 2007), the last time (2007) as the leader of the special program Arithmetic Combinatorics.
Achievements
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In 2008 Vu was awarded the Pólya Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on concentration of measure. In 2012, Vu was awarded the Fulkerson Prize (jointly with Anders Johansson and Jeff Kahn) for determining the threshold of edge density above which a random graph can be covered by disjoint copies of a given smaller graph. Also in 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Membership
American Mathematical Society.
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United States