Daniel Spielman
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]
Daniel Spielman | |
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Born | March 1970 53) | (age
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Yale University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Smoothed analysis |
Awards | Gödel 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 | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Yale University |
Thesis | Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Sipser[6] |
Doctoral students |
Education
Daniel Spielman attended The Philadelphia School, and Germantown Friends School. He received his bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and computer science from Yale University in 1992 and a PhD in applied mathematics from MIT in 1995 (his dissertation was called "Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs"). He taught in the Mathematics Department at MIT from 1996 to 2005.
Awards
Spielman and his collaborator Shang-Hua Teng have jointly won the Gödel Prize twice: in 2008 for their work on smoothed analysis of algorithms[9] and in 2015 for their work on nearly-linear-time Laplacian solvers.
In 2010 he was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize "for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms for graph-based codes and applications of graph theory to Numerical Computing"[10] and the same year he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[11]
In 2012 he was part of the inaugural class of Simons Investigators providing $660,000 for five years for curiosity driven research.[12]
In October 2012, he was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Nikhil Srivastava, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem,[13][14] a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.
He gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[15]
In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[16]
In 2022 he won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for breakthrough contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics, including to spectral graph theory, the Kadison-Singer problem, numerical linear algebra, optimization, and coding theory.".[17]
References
- 2008 Godel Prize
- 2015 Gödel Prize
- "2012 MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' Winners". 1 October 2012. AP. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- SIAM: George Pólya Prize
- "National Academy of Sciences – Michael and Sheila Prize".
- Daniel Spielman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Brief bio
- "Daniel Spielman designated Sterling Professor of Computer Science". YaleNews. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
- Daniel Spielman's short bio at Yale University.
- Rolf Nevanlinna Prize – Daniel Spielman, ICM 2010, archived from the original on August 22, 2010, retrieved August 21, 2010
- ACM Names 41 Fellows from World's Leading Institutions: Many Innovations Made in Areas Critical to Global Competitiveness Archived April 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, ACM, December 7, 2010, retrieved November 20, 2011.
- "Simons Investigator". YaleNews.
- Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing families I: Bipartite Ramanujan graphs of all degrees", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 307–325, arXiv:1304.4132, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.7, MR 3374962
- Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison–Singer problem", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 327–350, arXiv:1306.3969, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.8, MR 3374963, S2CID 17580893
- "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, National Academy of Sciences, May 2, 2017.
- "Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2023 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Mathematics And Fundamental Physics Announced". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved September 22, 2022.