Eric Michael Rains (born 23 August 1973) is an American mathematician specializing in coding theory and special functions, especially applications from and to noncommutative algebraic geometry.
[1] Eric Rains was 14 when he began classes at Case Western Reserve University in 1987.
[3] He received his PhD in 1995 from Harvard University with thesis Topics in Probability on Compact Lie Groups under the supervision of Persi Diaconis.
[4] From 1995 to 1996, Rains worked at the IDA's Center for Communications Research (CCR) in Princeton.
[5] In 2007, Rains was a plenary speaker at the Western Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).