Alan Edelman
Edelman in 1999
BornJune 1963 (age 60)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
EducationYale University (BS, MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsMIT
ThesisEigenvalues and Condition Numbers of Random Matrices (1989)
Doctoral advisorLloyd N. Trefethen[1]
Doctoral students
Websitemath.mit.edu/~edelman

Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in applied computing. In 2004, he founded a business called Interactive Supercomputing which was later acquired by Microsoft. Edelman is a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions in numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing, and random matrix theory. He is one of the cocreators of the technical programming language Julia.

Education

Edelman received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1989 under the direction of Lloyd N. Trefethen. Following a year at Thinking Machines Corporation, and at CERFACS[4] in France, Edelman went to U.C. Berkeley as a Morrey Assistant Professor and Levy Fellow, 1990–93. He joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1993.

Research

Edelman's research interests include high-performance computing, numerical computation, linear algebra, and random matrix theory.

Awards

A Sloan fellow, Edelman received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career award in 1995. He has received numerous awards, among them the Gordon Bell Prize and Householder Prize (1990), the Chauvenet Prize (1998),[8] the Edgerly Science Partnership Award (1999), the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (2000), and the Lester R. Ford Award,[9] (2005, with Gilbert Strang).

See also

References

  1. ^ Alan Edelman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~romanv/slides/2010-ICM/2010-ICM-Roman-Mark.pdf[dead link]
  3. ^ From Random Matrices to Stochastic Operators: arXiv:math-ph/0607038
  4. ^ Cerfacs
  5. ^ Rudelson, Mark; Vershynin, Roman (2011). "Non-asymptotic Theory of Random Matrices: Extreme Singular Values". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010). Hindustan Book Agency (HBA), India. World Scientific for All Markets Except in India. pp. 1576–1602. arXiv:1003.2990. doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0111. ISBN 978-981-4324-30-4.
  6. ^ Matrix Models for Beta Ensembles: arXiv:math-ph/0206043
  7. ^ From Random Matrices to Stochastic Operators: arXiv:math-ph/0607038
  8. ^ Edelman, Alan; Kostlan, Eric (1995). "How Many Zeros of a Random Polynomial Are Real?". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 32: 1–37. arXiv:math/9501224. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1995-00571-9. S2CID 125863468.
  9. ^ Edelman, Alan; Strang, Gilbert (2004). "Pascal matrices". American Mathematical Monthly. 111 (3): 189–197. doi:10.2307/4145127. JSTOR 4145127.
  10. ^ SIAM Fellow Class of 2011: http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2011
  11. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  12. ^ IEEE Fellow Class of 2018: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2018_elevated_fellows.pdf Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Alan Edelman of MIT Recognized with Prestigious 2019 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award | IEEE Computer Society". October 2, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  14. ^ "2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations".
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