Satyan Devadoss

Satyan Linus Devadoss
Nationality American
Fields Mathematics, topology, geometry,
Institutions University of San Diego
Williams College
Alma mater North Central College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis Tesselations of moduli spaces and the mosaic operad (1999)
Doctoral advisor Jack Morava
Notable awards Mathematical Association of America's national teaching award
Website
satyandevadoss.org

Satyan Linus Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones chair of applied mathematics at the University of San Diego.[1] His research concerns topology and geometry, with inspiration coming from theoretical physics, phylogenetics, and scientific visualization.

Devadoss graduated as valedictorian from North Central College in 1993.[1] He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Jack Morava.[1][2] After postdoctoral studies at the Ohio State University under Mike Davis, he was a Williams College faculty from 2002 until 2016, receiving tenure and promotion to full-professor.[1] He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the Ohio State University, Harvey Mudd College, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Stanford University.[1]

With Joseph O'Rourke, Devadoss is the author of the textbook Discrete and Computational Geometry (Princeton University Press, 2011).[3][4] He is also the creator of Shape of Nature, a 36-lecture DVD course (Great Courses, 2010).

In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Devadoss is a winner of the Henry L. Alder National Teaching Award (2007), the Northeastern Sectional Award for Distinguished Teaching (2014), and the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Teaching Award (2016), all awarded by the Mathematical Association of America.[6][7]

He is the cofounder of CereusData, a data visualization company that focuses on storytelling of institutional data.[8]

His collection of paintings, titled "Cartography of Tree Space", was jointly created with San Francisco based artist Owen Schuh.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2016-08-16.
  2. ↑ Satyan Devadoss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Fasy, Brittany Terese; Millman, David L. (March 2014), "Review of Discrete and Computational Geometry by Satyan L. Devadoss and Joseph O'Rourke", SIGACT News, New York, NY, USA: ACM, 45 (1): 27–30, doi:10.1145/2596583.2596591.
  4. ↑ Wood, Bill (December 29, 2011), Discrete and Computational Geometry, MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-16.
  6. ↑ Henry L. Alder Award, MAA, retrieved 2015-01-16.
  7. ↑ MathFest 2007 Prizes and Awards, MAA, retrieved 2015-01-16.
  8. ↑ CereusData, retrieved 2015-01-16.
  9. ↑ SatelliteBerlin, retrieved 2016-01-15.
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