Daniel Spielman
Daniel Spielman | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 1970 (age 55) |
| Alma mater | Yale University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Smoothed analysis |
| Awards | Gödel Prize (2008, 2015) Fulkerson Prize (2009) Nevanlinna Prize (2010) MacArthur Fellowship (2012) Pólya Prize (2014) Michael and Sheila Held Prize (2021) 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 |
| Doctoral students | |
Daniel Alan Spielman (born March 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 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.