James Sethian
James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Group at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Photographed by Adalien Hulmer (2004) | |
| Born | May 10, 1954 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Level-set method Fast marching method Image segmentation Applied mathematics |
| Awards | Norbert Wiener Prize (2004), ICIAM Pioneer Prize (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Berkeley, Berkeley Lab Courant Inst. Princeton |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexandre Chorin, Peter Lax |
Sethian was born in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 1954. He received a B.A. (1976) from Princeton and a M.A. (1978) and Ph.D (1982) from Berkeley under the direction of Alexandre Chorin. Beginning in 1983, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, lastly at the Courant Institute under Peter Lax. In 1985, he returned to Berkeley to join the mathematics faculty, where he is currently a full professor. Sethian was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 as well as the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. Sethian has acted as Interim Director Research at Thinking Machines Corporation and held visiting positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.