Timothy A. Davis

Tim Davis is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, in the College of Engineering at the University of Florida, where he teaches and does research in applied mathematics, numerical analysis, data structures and algorithms, parallel computing, and sparse matrix algorithms. He has been on faculty since 1990. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and did a post-doc at CERFACS, in Toulouse, France.

He is the author of two invited and well-received books on applied mathematics, published by CRC Press and SIAM (the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a professional organization with 10,000+ members worldwide). He serves as an elected member of the SIAM Council and as an Associate Editor for two scientific journals (ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, and Computational Optimization and Applications). His research work is published in about two dozen technical journal articles, as well as in many commercially available software packages for scientific computing. His research data is widely used internationally and was selected by Amazon.com for hosting as a Public Data Set on Amazon Web Services.

One of his books (the MATLAB Primer) includes one of his mathematical poems. He's also written a children's book that's looking for a publisher: The Punkalunk and the Scarydid (http://www.punkalunk.com).

You can find him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TimothyAldenDavis , and on campus at http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~davis .