Daniel Spielman

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Daniel Spielman
BornMarch 1970 (1970-03) (age 54)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materYale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forSmoothed analysis
AwardsGödel Prize (2008, 2015)[1][2]
Fulkerson Prize (2009)
Nevanlinna Prize (2010)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012)[3]
Pólya Prize (2014)[4]
Michael and Sheila Held Prize (2021)[5]
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsYale University
Thesis Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs  (1995)
Doctoral advisorMichael Sipser[6]
Doctoral students

Daniel Alan Spielman (born March 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[7]) has been a professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale University since 2006. As of 2018, he is the Sterling Professor of Computer Science at Yale. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science, since its founding, and chair of the newly established Department of Statistics and Data Science.[8]

  1. ^ 2008 Godel Prize
  2. ^ 2015 Gödel Prize
  3. ^ "2012 MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' Winners". 1 October 2012. AP. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  4. ^ SIAM: George Pólya Prize
  5. ^ "National Academy of Sciences – Michael and Sheila Prize".
  6. ^ Daniel Spielman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Brief bio
  8. ^ "Daniel Spielman designated Sterling Professor of Computer Science". YaleNews. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.