Cameroonian mathematician Ludovic Tangpi bags prestigious scholarship from American Mathematical Society

By Nde Laura

Cameroonian-born, Ludovic Tangpi has been awarded the third annual American Mathematical Society Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship.

The year-long fellowship was created to promote excellence in mathematics research and to help generate a broader and sustained participation of black mathematicians.

Tangpi doubles as an Assistant Professor in Princeton University’s department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

He obtained his first degree in mathematics from the University of Yaounde I, before he traveled to South Africa where he had his Master’s from the Stellenbosch University of South Africa in collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. After his Ph.D., he worked jointly at Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Konstanz. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics at the University of Vienna. 

His research focuses on applied probability, stochastic control, and their applications in quantitative finance including risk management, super hedging and large population games.

The AMA Claytor -Gilmer award is reported to be worth 50,000 US dollars and the awardees are to use the stipend to enable their research in mathematics.

The fellowship was launched in honor of William Schieffelin Claytor and Gloria Ford Gilmer, the first African-American man and woman to publish research articles in peer-reviewed mathematics journals.

It should be recalled that in 2021, Tangpi received an award from the National Science Foundation Career. He is also a Pan African Research Council fellow.