J. Maurice Rojas

J. Maurice Rojas is a mathematician working at the intersection of

algebraic geometry and complexity theory. He is currently a full professor

in the mathematics department and (by courtesy appointment) the computer

science and engineering department at Texas A&M University. He obtained his applied

mathematics Ph.D. in 1995 (under the guidance of Fields Medalist Steve

Smale) and his computer science M.S. in 1991 (under the guidance of

John Canny). He has held visiting positions at ENS Lyon, John Hopkins

University, MSRI, IMA, Sandia National Laboratories, and MIT. Rojas

won the 2013 ISSAC distinguished paper award for his work on

sparse polynomials over finite fields (joint with J. Bi and Q. Cheng) and,

earlier in his career, he was an NSF CAREER Fellow and an NSF Postdoc. He

has also run a succesful NSF sponsored REU on algorithmic algebraic geometry

over the past 11 years.