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Alan Edelman

American mathematician

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.²

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Born Jun 1963.¹

About

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 creators of the technical programming language Julia.

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Early life and education

Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology³
Date not recordedHampshire College³
Date not recordedYale University³

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 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.

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Career

Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher.⁷

Date not recordedWorked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded JuliaHub⁶

Known for: The GSVD: Where are the Ellipses?, Matrix Trigonometry, and More.⁸

Personal life

BornJun 1963, Brooklyn⁹
CitizenshipUnited States¹⁰

Awards

2024Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{11 19}
2020ACM Fellow^{11 18}
2019Sidney Fernbach Award¹¹
2018IEEE Fellow^{11 17}
2015Charles Babbage Award^{11 15}
2015Fellow of the American Mathematical Society^{11 16}
2011Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics^{11 14}
2005Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards¹¹
1998Chauvenet Prize^{11 13}
1990Householder Prize^{11 12}

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Wikimedia CommonsAlan Edelman photo by George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0