Gabriel Carroll
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Gabriel Drew Carroll is a graduate of Harvard and a current MIT student 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 W. Barton and Chinese teammates Liang Xiao and Zhiqiang Zhang.[1][2][3]. 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 (2000–2003), a feat matched by only six others (Don Coppersmith (1968–1971), Arthur Rubin (1970–1973), Bjorn Poonen (1985–1988), Ravi Vakil (1988–1991), Reid Barton (2001–2004), and Daniel Kane (2003–2006)). 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 [citation needed]. He is also the proposer of Problem 3 of IMO 2009 and Problem 3 of IMO 2010.Carroll also proposes problems to the USAMO such as problem 3 in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and problem 6 in 2009. During the 2005-06 academic year, he taught English[citation needed] in Chaling, Hunan, China. He worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2006 to 2007 [citation needed].
Education
Gabriel Carroll is an alumnus of Oakland Technical High School and graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics. He is currently a graduate student in the Economics Department at MIT.