American Masters of
Mathematics

Zuming Feng (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) has mentored many highly talented students in the span of his career. As an award-winning master teacher, Zuming has taught high school for over served 30 years (Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Mark’s School of Texas) and served as head coach of the US IMO team for 15 years. He has also organized numerous math enrichment programs and camps all over the country, including MOSP, Awesome Math, IDEA Math, and FOCI Education. 

Kiran Kedlaya (PhD, MIT) is a professor at UC San Diego. He received multiple gold medals at the IMO, coached IMO teams, was a Putnam Fellow three times, and co-authored two compilations of Putnam problems and solutions. Among his many honors, he is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Dennis Leary (MBA, Cornell University) is the founder of Champlain Capital, a private equity firm in San Francisco and Boston. He has purchased and operated over 125 companies in the last 30 years, and with Paul Zeitz founded Proof School in 2013. He is an expert in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and successfully growing a wide range of companies.

Eugenia Malinnikova (PhD, St. Petersburg State University) is a professor at Stanford.  She attended the famous School 239 in Leningrad and received multiple gold medals at the IMO.  She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a recipient of the Clay Research Award.

David Vincent (BS, MIT) is a Managing Director at Jane Street Capital. He co-founded the Jane Street Academy of Math and Programming and the Husky Math Academy at the University of Washington, both free enrichment programs for high schoolers. As a student, he attended MOP and received multiple Honorable Mentions on the Putnam Exam.

Paul Zeitz (PhD, UC Berkeley) was a member of the first USA team to participate in the IMO in 1974, has written problems for the AMC and other competitions since 1985, coached several IMO teams, and currently serves as the deputy director of the Putnam Exam.  In 2013, he co-founded Proof School with Dennis Leary, creating the only secondary school in the country dedicated to the education of “math kids”.