Neil O'Connell

{{Short description|Irish mathematician}}

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Neil Michael O'Connell is an Irish mathematician from Shannon, County Clare. He attended Trinity College Dublin, and was elected to scholarship in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php |title=List of Scholars |website=TCD Scholars |publisher=TCD Life |access-date=2021-01-25}} He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and a gold medal in 1989 and completed an M.Sc. in 1990. He obtained his PhD in 1993 at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Steven Neil Evans.{{cite web |url=https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=34473 |title=Neil Michael O'Connell |website=genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu |publisher=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=2021-01-25}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ucd.ie/research/people/mathematicsstatistics/professorneilo'connell/ |title=UCD Page for Professor Neil O'Connell |website=www.ucd.ie |publisher=University College Dublin |access-date=2021-01-25}} He subsequently worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,{{cite web |url=https://www.dias.ie/2010/07/09/o-connell-n/ |title=O'Connell, N (Past Members) |website= www.dias.ie |publisher=Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |access-date=2021-06-03}} and the University of Warwick.

He works in probability theory, in particular random matrices. He was awarded the inaugural Itô prize in 2002 (together with Ben Hambly and James Martin),{{cite web |url=http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/15-features/157-ito-prize |title=Itô Prize |date=2019-11-15 |website=www.bernoulli-society.org |publisher=Bernoulli Society |access-date=2021-01-25}} and the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2005.{{cite web |url=https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-trust |title=Rollo Davidson Trust | website=www.statslab.cam.ac.uk |publisher=University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory |access-date=2021-01-25}} In 2013 he was Doob Lecturer at the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, in Boulder, Colorado.{{cite web |url=http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/lecture-selection-committee |title=Schramm/Doob Lecture Selection Committee |date=2020-06-16 |website=www.bernoulli-society.org |publisher=Bernoulli Society |access-date=2021-01-25}} He is currently Professor at University College Dublin.