Daniel Spielman
Professor of mathematics
Daniel Alan Spielman 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. Wikipedia
Place of birth: Philadelphia, PA
Awards: Gödel Prize, IMU Abacus Medal, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and more
Notable students: Nikhil Srivastava, Jonathan A. Kelner, and Amit Jayant Deshpande
Academic advisor: Michael Sipser
Affiliation: Yale University
Research interests: Theoretical Computer Science