Yuval Peres

Yuval Peres was born in 1963 in Jerusalem

Yuval Peres was born in Jerusalem on 5 October 1963 and grew up in Ramat HaSharon. His father, Yohanan Peres, was a professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.

He earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990, supervised by Hillel Furstenberg. He then held postdoctoral posts at Stanford and Yale.

In 1993 he joined the statistics department at UC Berkeley and later became a professor of both mathematics and statistics. He also taught at the Hebrew University. From 2006 to 2018 he worked at Microsoft Research, where he managed the Theory Group until 2012.

Several female scientists accused him of sexual harassment. In 2012 he resigned an affiliate post at the University of Washington after being told the allegations would be investigated. In 2018 he wrote a letter saying he regretted past cases and had not intended to harass anyone.

He was a researcher at Kent State University from 2020 to 2022. In 2022 he became a professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications in China.