Alison Miller

[2] Miller was home-schooled in Niskayuna, New York, and in 2000 came in third place in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

[3] She competed for the U.S. in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2004, where she became the first American female gold medalist.

She was then awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study for a year at the University of Cambridge in England.

[7][12][15] She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2014, under the supervision of Manjul Bhargava; her dissertation concerned knot invariants.

[1] After graduation, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University before becoming an associate editor for Mathematical Reviews.