Jeffrey Brock

Jeffrey Farlowe Brock (born June 14, 1970, in Bronxville, New York) is an American mathematician, working in low-dimensional geometry and topology.

[1] In July 2019, he was additionally appointed Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science.

[1] In July 2019, he was additionally appointed Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science.

His joint work with Richard Canary and Yair Minsky resulted in a solution [8] to the "Ending Lamination Conjecture" of William Thurston, culminating in the geometric classification theorem for (topologically finite) hyperbolic 3-manifolds in terms of their fundamental group and the structure of their ends.

More recently, he has worked to understand applications of geometry and topology to the structure of massive and complex data sets and the risks and implications of the increasing use of 'black box' algorithms in science and society.