Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, PhysicsBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Physics2019 - 20222019 - 2022
Grade: 4.9/5.0Grade: 4.9/5.0
Activities and societies: President of Undergraduate Mathematics Association (2020-2022); President of International Students Association (2021-2022); Treasurer and Class RepresentativeExec of First Generation & Low Income Students Coalition (2020-2022); Advocacy & Outreach Chair and Social ChairProfessional Development Chair of Society of Physics Students (2021-2022); MIT Cheerleaders (2019-2020)Activities and societies: President of Undergraduate Mathematics Association (2020-2022); President of International Students Association (2021-2022); Treasurer and Class RepresentativeExec of First Generation & Low Income Students Coalition (2020-2022); Advocacy & Outreach Chair and Social ChairProfessional Development Chair of Society of Physics Students (2021-2022); MIT Cheerleaders (2019-2020)
Received the MIT Convocations Emerging Leader Award and Community Building Award. FGLI work received "Organization of the Year"
AboutAbout
Carina Letong Hong is a PhD candidate at Stanford University Department of Mathematics and a JD candidate at Stanford Law School, supported by a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Prior, she studied at University of Oxford, Hertford College as a Rhodes Scholar, where she earned a neuroscience master's with dissertation distinctions and conducted deep learning research at UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Center Gatsby Unit. She attended MIT for undergrad (math and physics), where she completed 20 graduate courses and had 9 publications appear in peer-reviewed journals, spanning over number theory, combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and probability.
Carina is the winner of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research, the highest honor in the world for one undergraduate in mathematics, as well as the AWM Schafer Prize, to one undergraduate woman in math in North America. She serves as an expert referee for 10+ academic journals, and has been an invited speaker at TEDx Talks, UK's Ditchley Park Conference, China's CGTN podcast, Germany's DBLP (Schloss Dagstuhl) Seminar, and France's CNRS Lectures at LIPN.
