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Statistics & Data Science Seminar

S&DS Seminar: Alan Edelman (MIT)

Speaker: Alan Edelman (MIT) Professor of Applied Mathematics Computer Science and AI Laboratories (CSAIL) and leads the MIT Julia Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, January 26, 2026 3:30PM - 5:00PM 3:30pm Pre-talk meet and greet teatime in 1307 4:00pm Talk in 1327 Location: Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science & Webcast, 219 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 and via Webcast: https://yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx#folderID=%2243d9b173-665a-4043-9179-b21f0104eadc%22

Speaker bio: Alan Edelman is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). A Yale alumnus, he earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale University before completing his Ph.D. at MIT under Lloyd N. Trefethen.

Edelman is internationally recognized for his contributions to numerical linear algebra, random matrix theory, high-performance computing, and scientific computing. He is one of the creators of the Julia programming language, now widely used in research and industry, and the founder of Interactive Supercomputing, a company later acquired by Microsoft. His work bridges deep mathematical theory with practical computational systems.

A Fellow of the AMS, SIAM, IEEE, and ACM, Edelman has received numerous honors, including the Chauvenet Prize, the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, and the Charles Babbage Award. His research continues to shape modern computational science, combining mathematics, algorithms, and high-performance computing at scale.

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