Jonathan Zung

Jonathan Zung is an assistant professor in the mathematics department at Georgia Tech, working on foliations and flows on 3-manifolds and their interactions with contact and symplectic geometry. He earned his PhD at Princeton, an MSc in Computer Science at Princeton, and an MSc in Mathematics and Honours BSc at the University of Toronto. Before topology he worked in the Seung lab on connectomics and computer vision, and he represented Canada at the 2010 International Mathematical Olympiad (honourable mention).

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• Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics, office Skiles 222; joined the faculty after a Princeton PhD, placing him in a theoretical topology group building on foliations/contact geometry.Aug 24, 2026
• Represented Canada at the 2010 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring 7 points (rank 418, honourable mention) - the national-team credential that anchors this identity.Jul 2010
• Pivoted from connectomics/computer vision (Seung lab at Princeton) into pure 3-manifold topology - a rare hybrid showing ML/vision experience he could port into topology tooling.2024
• Co-authored papers with Danny Calegari, Thomas Barthelmé, Chi Cheuk Tsang, John Baldwin and Steven Sivek - places him in a well-connected 3-manifold/flows research network.2026
• Two papers ('Reeb flows transverse to foliations', 'Taut foliations, left-orders, and pseudo-Anosov mapping tori') accepted to Geometry & Topology, a top journal in the field.2025
• PhD trajectory: Honours BSc Math Specialist + CS Major (U Toronto 2010-2013), MSc Mathematics (U Toronto 2013-2014), MSc Computer Science (Princeton 2014-2016), PhD Mathematics (Princeton, expected 2022).2021
• Initiated the Fine Hall mathematical murals initiative at Princeton (2019-2021), painting mathematically inspired murals in the math department stairwells - an unusually public-facing side project for a topologist.2021
• Trained Ghana's IMO team in summer 2021, tying his own olympiad background to ongoing outreach.2021