Alan Edelman

Alan Stuart Edelman is an American mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he leads a group in applied computing. He is known for contributions to numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing and random matrix theory, and in 2004 he founded Interactive Supercomputing, later acquired by Microsoft. He is one of the creators of the Julia programming language and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, IEEE and ACM.