Biography:Sue Whitesides
Sue Whitesides | |
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 Sue Whitesides at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing in 2012 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Thesis | Collineations of Projective Planes of Order 10 (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Bruck |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics, computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Computational geometry, graph drawing |
| Institutions | University of Victoria McGill University |
| Doctoral students | Vida 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]
References
- ↑ Faculty profile , Univ. of Victoria, retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ "Affiliated faculty - University of Victoria" (in en-CA). https://www.uvic.ca/engineering/computerscience/people/affiliated/index.php.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sue Hays Whitesides at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Computer science summer camp: High school students spend week programming, McGill Reporter, September 8, 2005.
- ↑ Morgan Stanley boosts info-tech sector , Montreal Gazette, May 2, 2008.
- ↑ Graph Drawing 1998 web site , retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ SoCG 2012 web site, retrieved 2012-09-30.
External links
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