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Larry Guth is a Claude E. Shannon Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics. His research interests include metric geometry, harmonic analysis, and extremal combinatorics. Guth did his PhD at MIT in 2005 under the supervision of Tom Mrowka. Following a postdoctoral position at Stanford and a junior faculty appointment at the University of Toronto, he was appointed professor at the Courant Institute in 2011, and joined the MIT math faculty as professor in 2012. His work focuses on metric geometry, including systolic inequalities, and connections between geometric inequalities and topology. He has also contributed to harmonic analysis and combinatorics, particularly through work related to the Kakeya problem.