Alexandru Nica

Alexandru Nica is a Professor in the Pure Mathematics Department of the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate studies in the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Bucharest, Romania, and the Ph.D. in the Mathematics Department of the University of California at Berkeley, under the supervision of Dan-Virgil Voiculescu. His research interests are in noncommutative probability and operator algebras, particularly their connections to combinatorics and classical probability. His current line of research is in an area called "free probability''.