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= Nina Zubrilina = Nina Zubrilina is an American mathematician. She earned a mathematics degree from Stanford University and was the recipient of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate and is currently a PhD student at Princeton University.

Early Life and Education
Nina Zubrilina was born in the United States, but grew up in Russia. She attended the Moscow State School #57 before returning to the U.S to study mathematics at Stanford University. While an undergraduate, she taught mathematics to high school students at the Euler Circle in San Francisco. She was also an intern for Microsoft in which she did research on the topic of sphere packing. Currently, she is a graduate student at Princeton University.

Awards and Accomplishments
Zubrilina has received multiple awards, most notably the 2020 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate. The prize described her as "a researcher with unusually mature vision, who has obtained beautiful and surprising results that shocked leading experts in the field”. She participated in the University of Minnesota Duluth Research Experience for Undergraduates and was also a recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship and an honorable mention for the Alice T. Schafer prize.

Interests/Research
Zubrilina has written multiple mathematical research papers. Her interests include sphere packing, combinatorics, number theory, and analysis. Zubrilina aims to be a mathematics professor and wants to help women undergraduates conduct research. Outside of academia, she enjoys reading, music, film, and lifting weights.