Daniel Spielman

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.

Daniel Spielman
BornMarch 1970 (1970-03) (age 54)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forSmoothed analysis
AwardsGödel 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
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsYale University
Thesis Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs  (1995)
Doctoral advisorMichael Sipser
Doctoral students
  • Nikhil Srivastava
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