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Henry Cohn is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000, where he was supervised by Noam Elkies. After completing his doctorate, he joined the theory group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, as a postdoctoral researcher from 2001 to 2007. He has been an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington since 2008, and is a founding member of Microsoft Research New England, where he has served as an adjunct professor in the MIT mathematics department since 2010. Cohn's research focuses on discrete mathematics, with specific interests in discrete geometry, coding theory, cryptography, combinatorics, computational number theory, and theoretical computer science. He graduated from MIT and received the Bucsela prize for being the top undergraduate in the mathematics department in 1995. His distinctions include the American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship from 2000 to 2005, the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2005, and an invited address on combinatorics at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2015, he was made a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He received the Levi L. Conant Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2018 for his article on the conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing, published in the Notices of the AMS in February 2017.