[angry-tempest]

Santosh Vempala is also considered to be a genius, at least in the statistical learning community.

I don't know how he didn't get tenure from MIT though

[rosstex]

According to his CV, he did get tenure.

[Cyph0n]

At Georgia Tech, not at MIT. Still a great achievement though (go Jackets!).

Edit: my bad, looks like he was an associate prof at MIT, which means he was indeed tenured before moving to Tech!

[aoki]

I have no idea what happened in this case, but that doesn't follow - MIT is one of those schools that routinely promote to associate without necessarily giving tenure [0].

[0] https://thetech.com/2010/06/11/tenure-v130-n28

[rosstex]

Interesting, thanks!

[tracyhenry]

There is a position at MIT called associate prof without tenure. So just because he was an associate prof doesn't necessarily mean he had tenure.

[gautamcgoel]

Where did you hear that? It doesn't mention it in the article...