Biography

Minh-Tâm Quang Trinh studies algebraic geometry, combinatorics, q-algebra, and representation theory.

Before joining Howard, he served as a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University (2024–25), and as a combined CLE Moore Instructor (2020–24) and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020–23) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 2020 from the University of Chicago, advised by Châu Ngô and Victor Ginzburg. For his doctoral work, he received the William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, the highest honor that the University of Chicago awards to graduate students. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.