Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine
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  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Office: 32-G680
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Biography

Erik Demaine is an Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engeering and Computer Science, and a member of the Theory of Computation group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty in 2001, and became an Associate Professor in 2005. He received his PhD in 2001 and MMath in 1996 at University of Waterloo, and his BSc in 1995 at Dalhousie University.

His research interests span much of theoretical computer science and mathematics, in particular with connections to algorithms. Major research foci include discrete and computational geometry (particularly folding and unfolding of linkages, paper, polyhedra, and proteins), advanced data structures, graph algorithms, and recreational algorithms (such as the complexity of combinatorial games).

Publications

See http://erikdemaine.org/papers/

Awards

  • Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology: Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize
  • Francqui Foundation: International Francqui Chair
  • Dalhousie University: Honorary Doctor of Laws
  • Sloan Foundation: Research Fellowship
  • MIT: Edgerton Award
  • NSF: Career Award
  • Popular Science: Brilliant 10
  • MIT EECS: Spira Teaching Award
  • MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): NSERC Doctoral Prize

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