Jacob Fox

Hello! I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford Unversity. Before joining Stanford in 2015, I was on the faculty of the MIT Department of Mathematics. I completed my Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in 2010. My advisor was Benny Sudakov.

My work has been supported by a Packard Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Simons Fellowship. My research is currently supported by the NSF.

Research Interests:
Extremal combinatorics, algebraic and probabilistic methods in combinatorics, Ramsey theory, graph theory, combinatorial geometry, and applications of combinatorics to computer science.

CV (last updated October 2025)

Publications

PhD Students:
Shengtong Zhang (current), Carl Schildkraut (current), Maya Sankar, Max Xu, Cynthia Stoner, Yunkun Zhou, Huy Tuan Pham, Sammy Luo, Ray Li, Yuval Wigderson, Xiaoyu He, Fan Wei, Lisa Sauermann, László M. Lovász, Andrey Grinshpun, Yufei Zhao

Postdocs/Szegő Assistant Professors:
Tara Abrishami (current), Maria-Romina Ivan (current), Jonathan Tidor, Huy Tuan Pham, Hunter Spink, Jinyoung Park, Lisa Sauermann, Matthew Kwan, Freddie Manners, Peter Csikvari, Choongbum Lee, Andrew Suk

E-mail: jacobfox [@] stanford [dot] edu
Office: 383-K

Last updated: October 2025