Greta Panova obtained her PhD in Mathematics in 2011 from Harvard University. Since then she has been on the faculty of UCLA and University of Pennsylvania before joining USC in 2018. Her research is in mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics with connections to Integrable Probability and Representation Theory) with interactions with Theoretical Computer Science; and, separately, modeling in molecular biology. She is the recipient of the 2020 IMI Award of the Bulgarian Academy of Science, invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics 2023 conference and an editor for the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical competition.