Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability, and discrete mathematics.

Hough was a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom working with Ben Green from 2013 to 2015, and was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2015 to 2016.

[1] Hough won the Mathematical Association of America's David P. Robbins Prize at the Joint Math Meetings in 2017.

[2] The prize was given for finding the solution of a problem imposed by Paul Erdős.

[4] He also won a Trustees Faculty Award from Stony Brook University.