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Canadian mathematician and computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Sue Whitesides | |
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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 Dartmouth College |
Doctoral students | Vida Dujmović |
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]
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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