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Alexei Borodin is the Barton L. Weller Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics. He joined the MIT faculty as Professor of Mathematics in 2010. Borodin studies problems on the interface of representation theory and probability that link to combinatorics, random matrix theory, and integrable systems. He completed the Diploma from Moscow State University in 1997 and received the PhD under Alexandre Kirillov from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. He was a professor at Caltech in 2003-2010. From 2013-2016, he served as co-chair of the Graduate Faculty Committee in pure mathematics. Borodin has received several awards, including the Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 2003, the Prize of the European Mathematical Society in 2008, the Loeve Prize and the Henri Poincare Prize in 2015, and the 2019 Fermat Prize for the invention of integrable probability theory.