Carina Hong

Biography

Carina Letong Hong is currently a JD Candidate at Stanford Law School and a PhD Candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Art & Sciences. She graduated from University of Oxford with MSc in Neuroscience as a Rhodes scholar, where she conducted deep learning research projects at UCL Gatsby Computational Unit as lead author and received Distinction on her two dissertations. Prior to that, Carina completed dual BSc degrees in math and physics at MIT in three years, Sigma Pi Sigma, where she completed 20 graduate courses with highest grades. Carina had 9 publications appear in prestigious journals, spanning over number theory, combinatorics, probability, and theoretical computer science. She is the winner of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research, the highest honor in the world for one undergraduate in mathematics, as well as the AWM Schafer Prize, the highest honor for one undergraduate woman in math. She serves as an expert referee for 10+ academic journals, and has been an invited speaker at TEDx Talks, UK's Ditchley Park Conference, China's CGTN podcast, Germany's DBLP (Schloss Dagstuhl) Seminar, and France's CNRS Lectures at LIPN.