David Dror Ben-Zvi (born 1974) is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
David Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket, New York. He graduated a valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He then graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.
Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves (with E. Frenkel). Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 88, American Mathematical Society 2001.