It's interesting. We were mostly funding at the PhD level, and in computer science. By contrast, I read the links for all the current Clay Fellows[1] and notic

It's interesting. We were mostly funding at the PhD level, and in computer science. By contrast, I read the links for all the current Clay Fellows[1] and noticed that maybe 60-70% of them had one thing in common: They had proved some long standing (30 year+) conjecture. I agree that's a pretty good sign. Of course the program they did their PhD through is a pretty good initial screen too: Princeton 4 Harvard 4 Standford 1 Imperial College London 1 MIT 1 UT Austin: 1 [1] https://www.claymath.org/fas https://www.claymath.org/fas