Mikhail Khovanov (Russian: Михаил Гелиевич Хованов; born 1972) is a Russian-American professor of mathematics at Columbia University who works on representation theory, knot theory, and algebraic topology.
[3] He earned a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1997,[4] where he studied under Igor Frenkel.
[5] Khovanov was a faculty member at UC Davis before moving to Columbia University.
"Our hope for the week was to understand and improve Khovanov's seminal work on the categorification of the Jones polynomial" (Page 337).
"Mikhail Khovanov was in the department when he developed the famous homology theory that bears his name."