The Rollo Davidson Trustees announce the award of the 2026 Rollo Davidson Prize to three recipients: Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick) for great advances in our understanding of scaling-critical two-dimensional stochastic systems; Jiaoyang Huang (University of Pennsylvania) for deep results on edge universality for random matrices and related models; and Titus Lupu (Sorbonne Université) for deep contributions to the theory of Gaussian fields, Brownian motion, and isomorphism theorems.

IMS member Jiaoyang Huang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Mathematics. Before that, he was a postdoc at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, and a Junior Fellow at the Simons Society of Fellows from 2020–22. Dr. Huang was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2019–20 academic year. His PhD in mathematics from Harvard University was under the supervision of Professor Horng-Tzer Yau.