Stephen S. Kudla FRSC (born 1950 Caracas, Venezuela[1]) is an American mathematician working in arithmetic geometry and automorphic forms.
[2][3] After receiving his doctorate, Kudla spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, following which he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[5] He was a Sloan Fellow in 1981, received the Max-Planck Research Award in 2000, and the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2009.
He was an Invited Speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, where he gave a lecture on "Derivatives of Eisenstein series and arithmetic geometry".
He is on the Scientific Review Panel of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).