Alan Edelman
- 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)
- Applied mathematics
- Computer science
- Jeff Bezanson
- Ioana Dumitriu
- Yanyuan Ma
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.
Education
Edelman received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1989 under the direction of Lloyd N. Trefethen. Following a year at Thinking Machines Corporation, and at CERFACS[2] in France, Edelman went to U.C. Berkeley as a Morrey Assistant Professor and Levy Fellow, 1990–93. He joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1993.
Research
Edelman's research interests include high-performance computing, numerical computation, linear algebra, and random matrix theory.
- In random matrix theory, Edelman is known for the Edelman distribution of the smallest singular value of random matrices (also known as Edelman's law[3]), the invention of beta ensembles,[4] and the introduction of the stochastic operator approach,[5] and some of the earliest computational approaches.
- In high performance computing, Edelman is known for his work on parallel computing, as the co-founder of Interactive Supercomputing, as an inventor of the Julia programming language and for his work on the Future Fast Fourier transform. As the leader of the Julialab, he supervises work on scientific machine learning and compiler methodologies.
- In numerical linear algebra, Edelman is known for eigenvalues and condition numbers of random matrices, the geometry of algorithms with orthogonality constraints, the geometry of the generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD), and applications of Lie algebra to matrix factorizations.
Awards
A Sloan fellow, Edelman received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career award in 1995. He has received numerous awards, among them the Gordon Bell Prize and Householder Prize (1990), the Chauvenet Prize (1998),[6] the Edgerly Science Partnership Award (1999), the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (2000), and the Lester R. Ford Award,[7] (2005, with Gilbert Strang).
- In 2011, Edelman was selected a Fellow of SIAM,[8] "for his contributions in bringing together mathematics and industry in the areas of numerical linear algebra, random matrix theory, and parallel computing."
- In 2015, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[9] "for contributions to random matrix theory, numerical linear algebra, high-performance algorithms, and applications."
- In 2017, he became an IEEE Fellow Class of 2018[10] "for contributions to the development of technical-computing languages."
- In 2019, he was selected as the winner of Sidney Fernbach Award by IEEE Computer Society[11] "for outstanding breakthroughs in high-performance computing, linear algebra and computational science, and for contributions to the Julia programming language."
- In 2021, he became an ACM Fellow of Class 2020[12] "for contributions to algorithms and languages for numerical and scientific computing."
See also
- Timeline of programming languages
- Julia programming language
References
- ^ Alan Edelman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Cerfacs
- ^ Rudelson, Mark; Vershynin, Roman (2011). "Non-asymptotic Theory of Random Matrices: Extreme Singular Values". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010). Hindustan Book Agency (HBA), India. World Scientific for All Markets Except in India. pp. 1576–1602. arXiv:1003.2990. doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0111. ISBN 978-981-4324-30-4.
- ^ Matrix Models for Beta Ensembles: arXiv:math-ph/0206043
- ^ From Random Matrices to Stochastic Operators: arXiv:math-ph/0607038
- ^ Edelman, Alan; Kostlan, Eric (1995). "How Many Zeros of a Random Polynomial Are Real?". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 32: 1–37. arXiv:math/9501224. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1995-00571-9. S2CID 125863468.
- ^ Edelman, Alan; Strang, Gilbert (2004). "Pascal matrices". American Mathematical Monthly. 111 (3): 189–197. doi:10.2307/4145127. JSTOR 4145127.
- ^ SIAM Fellow Class of 2011: http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2011
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- ^ IEEE Fellow Class of 2018: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2018_elevated_fellows.pdf Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Alan Edelman of MIT Recognized with Prestigious 2019 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award | IEEE Computer Society". October 2, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ "2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations".
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- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
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- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
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- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer