Professor Dimitri Shlyakhtenko has been named the recipient of the 2025 College of Science Professional Achievement Award, awarded by the College of Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. This award is given to an alumnus with an outstanding record of career accomplishments, who is distinguished in their profession, demonstrates a continuing interest in the life of the University of Nevada, Reno, and the College of Science, and takes pride in their alma mater. He will be honored at an in-person reception this Fall. 

Dimitri Shlyakhtenko has served as the Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) since 2017. Shlyakhtenko has been a member of the faculty at the UCLA Mathematics Department since 1998 and served as the department chair from 2012 to 2015. His research is on Operator Algebra and includes free probability theory, random matrix theory, as well as von Neumann algebras and L2-invariants. He graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1993, then received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997.

Read more about the award here.