Daniel Alan Spielman received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer
Science from Yale in 1992, and his Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from
M.I.T. in 1995. He spent a year as a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoc
in the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley, and then taught
in the Applied Mathematics Department at M.I.T. until 2005.  Since
2006, he has been a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science at Yale University.

The awards he has received include the 1995 ACM Doctoral Dissertation
Award, the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award, the 2008 Godel
Prize, the 2009 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2010 Nevanlinna Prize.  He is
a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.  His main research
interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory,
machine learning, error-correcting codes and combinatorial scientific
computing.