F. Thomson Leighton
Frank Thomson Leighton | |
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Leighton in 2022 | |
| Born | October 28, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BSE) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Spouse | Bonnie Berger |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics |
| Institutions | Akamai Technologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Layouts for the shuffle-exchange graph and lower bound techniques for VLSI (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary Miller |
| Doctoral students | Peter Shor, Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Robert Kleinberg, Satish Rao |
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton (born 1956) is an American mathematician who is the CEO of Akamai Technologies, the company he co-founded with Daniel Lewin in 1998, and a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.