Arthur Jacot Awarded AMR 2025 Prize in the Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence

Arthur Jacot, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has received the 2025 Prize in the Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence from the Association for Mathematical Research.

Professor Jacot is recognized as "one of the most powerful and creative mathematicians working on understanding and improving artificial intelligence." As stated in the prize citation, "His most influential contribution to the subject is the development of the Neural Tangent Kernel framework. This work, introduced in 2018, provides a rigorous theoretical tool for understanding the behavior of overparameterized or “wide” deep neural networks trained by gradient descent."

This is the second annual Prize in the Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence awarded by the AMR. The selection committee judges exclusively on the quality of research produced by prize candidates. The prize comes with a $50,000 reward.