https://alex-damian.github.io/

Resolution criteria

This market resolves to YES if Alex Damian is listed as a tenured professor (typically holding the rank of Associate Professor or Full Professor) within the MIT Department of Mathematics or the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) by 11:59 PM ET on December 31, 2031. It resolves to NO otherwise.

Official confirmation via the MIT Department of Mathematics faculty directory or the MIT EECS faculty directory will serve as the primary evidence for resolution.

Background

Alex Damian is a researcher specializing in the mathematical foundations of deep learning, optimization dynamics, and representation learning. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University.

As of April 2026, he is a Kempner Research Fellow at Harvard University and is scheduled to begin an appointment as an Assistant Professor at MIT in Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between the Department of Mathematics and EECS. The transition to a tenured position typically follows a multi-year probationary period (tenure-track) at the rank of Assistant Professor, subject to institutional tenure review processes.

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