Elected: 2017
Country (Nationality)
Ethiopia
Discipline
Mathematical Sciences
Bio
Shiferaw Berhanu is a Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He is one of the founders of the PhD program in mathematics that was launched by AAU. In 2012, in joint work with Ming Xiao, they resolved an important 20 year-old conjecture of X. Huang in Several Complex Variables. Their work has inspired major advances and the resolutions of other longstanding conjectures in CR Geometry. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.
Berhanu has recruited eighteen students from Ethiopia who all completed their Ph.Ds at Temple University. He was the founder of the Ph.D. program in mathematics that was launched by the AAU in Ethiopia and has helped establish two other Ph.D. programs in Ethiopia.