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{{Short description|American mathematician}}
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| name              = Gabriel D. Carroll
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| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1982|12|24|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Oakland, California]]
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| nationality       = [[United States|American]]
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]<br>[[Mathematical economics]]
| workplaces        = [[University of Toronto]]<br>[[Microsoft Research]]
| alma_mater        = [[MIT]]<br>[[Harvard University]]
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| doctoral_advisor  = [[Parag Pathak]]<ref name="Thesis Supervisor">{{cite thesis |last= Carroll |first= Gabriel D. |date= 2012 |title= Approaches to mechanism design with boundedly rational agents |type= Ph.D. |publisher= [[MIT]] |hdl= 1721.1/72829 |url= https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/72829 |access-date= 17 October 2016 }}</ref><br>[[Daron Acemoglu]]<ref name="Thesis Supervisor" />
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'''Gabriel Drew Carroll''' (born December 24, 1982)<ref name="Vitae Carroll">{{cite web|url=http://individual.utoronto.ca/carroll/cv.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae}}</ref> is a Professor of Economics at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://individual.utoronto.ca/carroll/|title=Carroll's website at the University of Toronto}}</ref> He was born to tech industry worker parents in Oakland.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-12-21|title=Child prodigies: How geniuses navigate the uncertain journey to adulthood|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50856999|access-date=2021-09-25}}</ref> He graduated from [[Harvard University]] with [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[mathematics]] and [[linguistics]] in 2005 and received his doctorate in economics from [[MIT]] in 2012. He was recognized as a [[child prodigy]] and 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]] (IMO), 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 (person)|Liang Xiao]] and Zhiqiang Zhang.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=5093|title=Individual IMO results}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://imo.wolfram.com/scores/byrank.html|title=2001 IMO Results|access-date=2011-04-10|archive-date=2018-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101152206/http://imo.wolfram.com/scores/byrank.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imo-official.org/year_info.aspx?year=2001|title=2001 IMO Information}}</ref>

Gabriel earned a place among the top five 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),<ref name="MMA">{{cite web|title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|access-date=December 14, 2021}}</ref> a feat matched by only seven others ([[Don Coppersmith]] (1968–1971), [[Arthur Rubin]] (1970–1973), [[Bjorn Poonen]] (1985–1988), [[Ravi Vakil]] (1988–1991), [[Reid W. Barton]] (2001–2004), [[Daniel Kane (mathematician)|Daniel Kane]] (2003–2006), and [[Brian R. Lawrence]] (2007–08, 2010–11). 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 awards in science and math, including the [[Intel Science Talent Search]], has taught mathematics classes and tutorials, and plays the piano. He was a [[Research Science Institute]] scholar in 2000.<ref>{{citation|title=A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle: The American Experience, Volume I|editor1-first=Zvezdelina|editor1-last=Stankova|editor1-link= Zvezdelina Stankova |editor2-first=Tom|editor2-last=Rike|publisher=American Mathematical Society|isbn=9780821884331|series=MSRI Mathematical Circles Library|page=295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9_ebkHAmMEC&pg=PA295|quote=Gabriel Carroll was a high school junior when he took time off from IMO participation to work at the Research Science Institute at MIT.}}</ref>

Carroll proposed Problem 3 of IMO 2009 and Problem 3 of IMO 2010. He also proposes problems to the USAMO such as problem 3 in 2007, 2008, 2010 and problem 6 in 2009.

During the 2005–06 academic year, he taught English<ref name="Vitae Carroll"/> in [[Chaling]], [[Hunan]], [[China]]. He worked at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]] from 2006 to 2007 and was an Assistant Professor of Economics, and then an Associate Professor of Economics, at [[Stanford University]] from July 2013 through December 2020.<ref name="Vitae Carroll"/>

== 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 graduated from the Economics Department at [[MIT]] in 2012, and spent one year at Microsoft Research as a postdoctoral researcher during 2012–2013.<ref name="Vitae Carroll"/>

== Personal life ==
Carroll married Canadian economist [[Eva Vivalt]] in August 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 25, 2019 |title=Eva Vivalt, Gabriel Carroll |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/fashion/weddings/eva-vivalt-gabriel-carroll.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMO results |id=5093 }}
*[http://individual.utoronto.ca/carroll/ Carroll's website]
*[http://imo.wolfram.com/contestants/USA2/ International Math Olympiad]
*[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.09/34-carroll.html Harvard Gazette]
*[http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html William Lowell Putnam Competition]
*[http://sciencenewsmagazine.org/articles/20010331/mathtrek.asp Science News Magazine]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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