Alexander Furman

Furman started teaching mathematics in 1996 where he was a L. E. Dickson instructor of mathematics at the University of Chicago and again in 1998[3]. A year later in 1997 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow over at Penn State University[3].  He would then be an associate professor over at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1999 to 2002 and during 2002 to 2007[3]. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago for thirteen years. Apart from his teachings, Alexander Furman has also published some of his work, a total of thirty-one to be exact. In different occasions he would participate in sixty three different seminars as a speaker[3]. Alexander Furman also runs a program called the UIC Math Olympiad Project, where he works with students from middle school to high school in where he encourages them to discuss and work out mathematical problems[5].

Furman's work in the field of mathematics has earned him a total of fourteen awards. His first award was back in 1998 winning the National Science Foundation grant and eventually receiving it four more times in the future[3][6]. Another grant that was awarded to him three times in his career was the Binational Science Foundation[3][7]. In 2014 he was given the Simons Foundation Fellow that is given to those who are involved in research in mathematics[8][3]. He has also received the National Science Foundation Career Award, that is given to those who have done an exceptional work in teaching through research[9][6]. In 2014 he was an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematics hosted in Seoul, South Korea[9][10]. Also, for his work in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and Lie groups, he was placed in the class of 2016, American Mathematical Society Fellow, in where fifty individuals are chosen from around the world who have been noticed for their contribution of mathematics[11]. Some of his most recent awards are the University Scholar and the LAS Distinguished Professor[9][12][13].