Carina Letong Hong is a PhD candidate at Stanford University Department of Mathematics and a JD candidate at Stanford Law School, supported by a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Prior, she studied at University of Oxford, Hertford College as a Rhodes Scholar, where she earned a neuroscience master's with dissertation distinctions and conducted deep learning research at UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Center Gatsby Unit. She attended MIT for undergrad (math and physics), where she completed 20 graduate courses and had 9 publications appear in peer-reviewed journals, spanning over number theory, combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and probability.
Carina is the winner of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research, the highest honor in the world for an undergraduate in mathematics, as well as the AWM Schafer Prize, to one undergraduate woman in math in North America. She serves as an expert referee for 10+ academic journals, and has been an invited speaker at TEDx Talks, UK's Ditchley Park Conference, China's CGTN podcast, Germany's DBLP (Schloss Dagstuhl) Seminar, and France's CNRS Lectures at LIPN.
