Biography:Carla Savage

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Short description: American computer scientist

Carla Diane Savage is an American computer scientist and mathematician, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University[1] and a former secretary of the American Mathematical Society (2013-2020).[2]

Education and research

Savage attended high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, where she took advanced classes in mathematics.[3] Savage earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the supervision of David E. Muller; her thesis concerned parallel graph algorithms.[4] Much of her more recent research has concerned Gray codes and algorithms for efficient generation of combinatorial objects.

Awards and honors

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5] In 2019 she was named a SIAM Fellow "for outstanding research in algorithms of discrete mathematics and in computer science applications, alongside exemplary service to mathematics".[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. Full professor directory, Computer Science, NCSU, retrieved 2013-07-12.
  2. [1], retrieved 2023-03-13.
  3. Mansour, Toufik (August 27, 2021). "Interview with Carla D. Savage". Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications 2 (3): 1. https://ecajournal.haifa.ac.il/Volume2022/ECA2022_S3I9.pdf. 
  4. Carla Savage at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-12.
  6. SIAM Fellows Class of 2019, https://www.siam.org/Prizes-Recognition/Fellows-Program/All-SIAM-Fellows/Class-of-2019, retrieved 2019-09-01