Sue Whitesides

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. Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing. She received her PhD in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Richard Bruck. Before joining the University of Victoria faculty she taught at Dartmouth College and McGill University, where she was director of the School of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008. She was program chair for the 1998 International Symposium on Graph Drawing and program co-chair for the 2012 Symposium on Computational Geometry.