Alan Edelman

Professor Edelman considers himself to be a pure mathematician and an applied computer scientist.

He works in the areas of numerical linear algebra, Random Matrix theory, high performance computing systems, networks, software, and algorithms.  He has won many prizes for his work including the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, the Householder prize, the Sidney Fernbach award, and Babbage Prize.   He was the founder of Interactive Supercomputing, a company acquired by Microsoft in its fifth year employing nearly 50 people, and is a co-creator of Julia.  He is an elected fellow of ACM, AMS, IEEE, and SIAM.  He believes above all that math and computing go together and both should be fun