Luca Trevisan
Luca Trevisan | |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Pierluigi Crescenzi |
Luca Trevisan (21 July 1971 – 19 June 2024) was an Italian professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan.
His research area was
sublinear algorithms. He also ran a blog, in theory, about theoretical computer science
.
Education and career
Trevisan received his PhD from
Stanford. In 2014 he returned to Berkeley, and in 2019 he moved to the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University.[2]
Recognition
Trevisan won the
Sloan Fellowship also in 2000. He was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.[4] He was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
in 2012.
Personal life and death
Trevisan came out as gay in 2000, and in 2012 he organized a collection of testimonials by gay theoretical computer scientists on their experiences in the research community.[5]
He died on 19 June 2024, at the age of 52.[6]
References
- ^ Luca Trevisan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Luca Trevisan at Bocconi University, retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Prizes: Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award Archived 25 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, ACM SIGACT, retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ Proceedings of ICM 2006 Archived 7 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ "Turing Centennial Post 4: Luca Trevisan", in theory, 2 July 2012.
- ^ "Luca Trevisan, a beautiful mind - Università Bocconi". www.unibocconi.it (in Italian). 19 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
External links
- List of Publications
- in theory, Trevisan's blog
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