Cynthia Vinzant

Cynthia Vinzant is an American mathematician specializing in real algebraic geometry; her research has also involved algebraic combinatorics, matroid theory, Hermitian matrices, and spectrahedra in convex optimization.

[1] Vinzant is a 2007 graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, where she studied mathematics and neuroscience.

[2] She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Real Algebraic Geometry in Convex Optimization supervised by Bernd Sturmfels.

[2][3] After working as a Hildebrandt Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, Vinzant obtained a tenure-track assistant professor position at North Carolina State University in 2015.

[6] Vinzant and colleagues will receive[7] the 2025 Michael and Sheila Held Prize[8] from the National Academy of Sciences.