Ofer Zeitouni Wins the Paul Lévy Prize

June 16, 2026

Ofer Zeitouni, Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, has received the Paul Lévy Prize during the 45th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications held in Ithaca, New York this week. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of probability theory and its applications; the prize was created jointly by the European Mathematical Society, École Polytechnique, the Fondation de l'École polytechnique and Paul Lévy’s family, with the support of BNP Paribas. This year's Paul Lévy Prize Selection Committee was chaired by Martin Hairer, winner of the 2014 Fields Medal. 

Professor Zeitouni has served on Courant's faculty since 2013; he holds a dual-appointment as Professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research focuses on large deviations theory, the spectral theory of random matrices, motion in random media, and extremes of logarithmically correlated fields. He is also interested in filtering theory and its engineering applications. Professor Zeitouni is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as well as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

"Paul Lévy was one of the founding fathers of the theory of stochastic processes and had a deep understanding of their fine properties," Professor Zeitouni told École Polytechnique in a statement, "I am deeply honoured and humbled to be awarded a prize named after him."