Alan Edelman

Alan Edelman
Alan Edelman
	Edelman in 1999
Born	June 1963 (age 62–63); Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education	Yale University (BS, MS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Awards	ACM Fellow (2020); IEEE Fellow (2017); AMS Fellow (2015); SIAM Fellow (2011); Chauvenet Prize (1998); IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (2015); IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award (2019);
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics; Computer science;
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Eigenvalues and Condition Numbers of Random Matrices (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Lloyd N. Trefethen
Doctoral students	Jeff Bezanson; Ioana Dumitriu; Yanyuan Ma;
Website	math.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 creators of the technical programming language Julia.