William Stein is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. In his mathematics research, he uses the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture as motivation to understand the constellation of arithmetic invariants associated to optimal quotients of J₀(N). He also uses computers to do explicit computations on modular abelian varieties, and is the main author of SAGE.

In May 2000 he received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley (here is his Ph.D. genealogy tree). His thesis involved the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for modular abelian varieties. From May 2000 until May 2001 he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, during which time he traveled a huge amount. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He joined the UW mathematics department in the Spring of 2006.

To learn much more about where he comes from, read his short autobiography.

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