Name Erik Demaine Role Professor | ||
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Alma mater Dalhousie UniversityUniversity of Waterloo Thesis Folding and Unfolding (2001) Doctoral students Mohammad HajiaghayiMihai Patrascu Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Books Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra, Games, Puzzles, and Computation Parents Martin Demaine, Judy Anderson Awards MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Martin Demaine, Ian Munro, Mihai Patrascu, Charles E Leiserson, Vanessa Gould | ||
Nationality Canadian and American Doctoral advisor Anna LubiwIan Munro | ||
Big ideas for busy people erik demaine
Erik D. Demaine (born 28 February 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former child prodigy.
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- Big ideas for busy people erik demaine
- Math encounters the geometry of origami erik demaine presentation part 1 of 4
- Early life and education
- Professional accomplishments
- Honors and awards
- References
Math encounters the geometry of origami erik demaine presentation part 1 of 4
Early life and education
Demaine was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to artist sculptor Martin L. Demaine and Judy Anderson. From the age of 7, he was identified as a child prodigy and spent time traveling across North America with his father. He was home-schooled during that time span until entering university at the age of 12.
Demaine completed his bachelor's degree at 14 years old at Dalhousie University in Canada, and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo by the time he was 20 years old.
Professional accomplishments
Demaine's PhD dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, was completed at the University of Waterloo. This work was awarded the Canadian Governor General's Gold Medal from the University of Waterloo and the NSERC Doctoral Prize (2003) for the best PhD thesis and research in Canada. The content of this thesis was later incorporated into a collection of academic works on geometric folding published in 2007.
Demaine joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001 at age 20, reportedly the youngest professor in the history of the MIT, and was promoted to full professorship in 2011. Demaine is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Mathematical origami artwork by Erik and Martin Demaine was part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, and has been included in the MoMA permanent collection. That same year, he was one of the featured artists in Between the Folds, an international documentary film about origami practitioners which was later broadcast on PBS television. He is on the board of directors of Gathering 4 Gardner.
Honors and awards
In 2003, Demaine was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called "genius" grant.
In 2013, Demaine received the EATCS Presburger Award for young scientists. The award citation listed accomplishments including his work on the carpenter's rule problem, hinged dissection, prefix sum data structures, competitive analysis of binary search trees, graph minors, and computational origami. That same year, he was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
For his work on bidimensionality, he was the winner of the Nerode Prize in 2015 along with his co-authors Fedor Fomin, Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, and Dimitrios Thilikos. The work was the study of a general technique for developing both fixed-parameter tractable exact algorithms and approximation algorithms for a wide class of algorithmic problems on graphs.
In 2017, he became a fellow at the Association for Computing Machinery.