Jacob Tsimerman is a Canadian mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in number theory and related areas. He was born in Kazan, Russia, in 1988 and moved to Canada in 1996. Tsimerman has received significant recognition for his contributions to mathematics, including the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2015 for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry.