Biography:Sue Whitesides

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Short description: Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
Sue Whitesides
Sue Whitesides at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing in 2012
Sue Whitesides at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing in 2012
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
ThesisCollineations of Projective Planes of Order 10 (1975)
Doctoral advisorRichard Bruck
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics, computer science
Sub-disciplineComputational geometry, graph drawing
InstitutionsUniversity of Victoria

McGill University

Dartmouth College
Doctoral studentsVida Dujmović

Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada .[1][2] Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.

Education and career

Whitesides received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the supervision of Richard Bruck.[3] Before joining the University of Victoria faculty, she taught at Dartmouth College and McGill University;[3] at McGill, she was director of the School of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008.[4][5]

Service

Whitesides was the program chair for the 1998 International Symposium on Graph Drawing[6] and program co-chair for the 2012 Symposium on Computational Geometry.[7]

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