U of T professor Jacob Tsimerman, who won math’s highest prize, to join OpenAI

University of Toronto (U of T) professor Jacob Tsimerman, who recently won the prestigious Fields Medal, is leaving the university to join OpenAI. The news: Tsimerman became the second Canadian in history to win the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, last week. The now 38-year-old first began studying math at age 16 at the U of T, where he returned to teach after completing a PhD at Princeton and postdoctoral studies at Harvard.