kiran kedlaya received his ph.d. in mathematics from mit in 2000. for the next three years, he held postdoctoral positions at the mathematical sciences research institute in berkeley, at the university of california at berkeley, and at the institute for advanced study in princeton. since then, kedlaya has been a faculty member at mit, first as assistant professor and then as associate professor. kedlaya is an expert on a broad range of topics related to arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory, especially p-adic cohomology, p-adic hodge theory, and computational number theory.