Although very young, Mihai Cucuringu is a man with many professional achievements and many academic experiences. In 2003 he graduated Gh A. Murgoci highschool in Brăila. He then went to Hiram College, Ohio, with specialisations in math, computing and economics. In 2012 he completed his PhD at Princeton University in applied and computational math. Then he worked for Bank of America in New York and had a post-doctoral position as Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of UCLA. Mihai is currently Associate Professor within the Department of Statistics at Oxford University, with affiliates at the Institute of mathematics of Oxford and the Alan Touring Institute in London.