Jinho Baik is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Admissions at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Mathematics department. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute in 1999. His research focuses on analysis, probability theory, and mathematical physics, utilizing analytic tools to study probabilistic models. Specific models Baik investigates include eigenvalues of large random matrices, heights of randomly growing interfaces, locations of vicious random walkers, and the longest increasing subsequence in random permutations. His work frequently involves complex analysis, asymptotic analysis, functional analysis, potential theory, and combinatorics, seeking integrable differential equations with applications in statistics and engineering. Baik has been recognized as a Simons Fellow in 2016, highlighting the significance of his contributions to mathematics.