Gabriel D. Carroll

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Gabriel Drew Carroll is a recent graduate of Harvard who received numerous awards in mathematics while a student. Carroll won two gold medals (1998, 2001) and a silver medal (1999) at the International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a perfect score at the 2001 International Mathematical Olympiad held in Washington, D.C., shared only with American teammate Reid Barton and Chinese teammates Liang Xiao and Zhiqiang Zhang. Gabriel earned a place among the five top ranked competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition all four years that he was eligible (2000-03), a feat matched by only six others (Don Coppersmith (1968-71), Arthur Rubin (1970-73), Bjorn M. Poonen (1985-88), Ravi D. Vakil (1988-91), Reid Barton (2001-04), and Daniel Kane (2003-06). His top-5 performance in 2000 was particularly notable, as he was officially taking the exam in spite of only being a high school senior, thus forfeiting one of his years of eligibility in college. He was on the first place Putnam team twice (2001-02) and the second place team once (2003). He has earned numerous awards in science and math, including the Intel Science Talent Search, has taught numerous mathematics classes and tutorials, excels on the piano, and was a Research Science Institute scholar. During the 2005-06 academic year, he taught English in Chaling, Hunan, China, and as of March 2007 is employed at the National Bureau of Economic Research.