Editing Laurent Lafforgue (section)

== Biography ==
Laurent Lafforgue has two brothers, Thomas and [[Vincent Lafforgue|Vincent]], both mathematicians. Thomas is now a teacher in a ''[[classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles]]'' at Lycée Louis le Grand in [[Paris]] and [[Vincent Lafforgue|Vincent]] a [[CNRS]] directeur de recherches at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble.

He won 2 silver medals at [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] (IMO) in 1984 and 1985. He entered the [[École Normale Supérieure]] in 1986. In 1994 he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] under the direction of [[Gérard Laumon]] in the [[Arithmetic]] and [[Algebraic Geometry]] team at the [[Université de Paris-Sud]]. Currently he is a research director of [[CNRS]]. He was detached as permanent professor of [[mathematics]] at the [[Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques]] (IHÉS) in [[Bures-sur-Yvette]], France, in 2000-2021. In 2021, he left his IHÉS position and moved to [[Huawei]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Mathematician Laurent Lafforgue joins Huawei team |date=28 September 2021 |url=https://www.huaweicentral.com/french-mathematician-laurent-lafforgue-joins-huawei-team/}}</ref> His goal there is to apply [[topos theory]] to the area of [[artificial intelligence]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-09-01 |title=Laurent Lafforgue rejoint Huawei Technologies France - IHES |url=https://www.ihes.fr/laurent-lafforgue/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241206142642/https://www.ihes.fr/laurent-lafforgue/ |archive-date=2024-12-06 |access-date=2025-03-28 |work=IHES |language=fr-FR}}</ref>