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One of the co-authors, Richard Peng, is well known in the competitive programming community (he has helped train the US IOI team in years past).

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Santosh Vempala is also considered to be a genius, at least in the statistical learning community.

I don't know how he didn't get tenure from MIT though

According to his CV, he did get tenure.

At Georgia Tech, not at MIT. Still a great achievement though (go Jackets!).

Edit: my bad, looks like he was an associate prof at MIT, which means he was indeed tenured before moving to Tech!

I have no idea what happened in this case, but that doesn't follow - MIT is one of those schools that routinely promote to associate without necessarily giving tenure [0].

[0] https://thetech.com/2010/06/11/tenure-v130-n28

Interesting, thanks!

There is a position at MIT called associate prof without tenure. So just because he was an associate prof doesn't necessarily mean he had tenure.

Where did you hear that? It doesn't mention it in the article...

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