Mike Steel (mathematician)
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Michael Anthony Steel (born May 1960) is a New Zealand mathematician and statistician, a Distinguished Professor of mathematics and statistics
Biography
Steel studied at the University of Canterbury, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982, a masters in 1983, and a degree in journalism in 1985. He then moved to Massey University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989, supervised by Michael D. Hendy and David Penny.[3] He joined the Canterbury faculty in 1994.[2]
Awards and honours
Steel won the Hamilton Memorial Prize of the
In 1999 he won the research award of the New Zealand Mathematical Society "for his fundamental contributions to the mathematical understanding of phylogeny, demonstrating a capacity for hard creative work in combinatorics and statistics and an excellent understanding of the biological implications of his results."[5]
He became a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2003.[6]
In 2018, Steel was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology, for his outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[7]
Selected publications
- Lockhart, Peter J., Michael A. Steel, Michael D. Hendy, and David Penny. "Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution." Molecular biology and evolution 11, no. 4 (1994): 605–612.
- Esser, Christian, Nahal Ahmadinejad, Christian Wiegand, Carmen Rotte, Federico Sebastiani, Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich, Katrin Henze et al. "A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among α-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes." Molecular Biology and Evolution 21, no. 9 (2004): 1643–1660.
- Erdős, Péter L., Michael A. Steel, László A. Székely, and Tandy J. Warnow. "A few logs suffice to build (almost) all trees (I)." Random Structures & Algorithms 14, no. 2 (1999): 153–184.
- Erdös, Péter L., Michael A. Steel, LászlóA Székely, and Tandy J. Warnow. "A few logs suffice to build (almost) all trees: part II." Theoretical Computer Science 221, no. 1-2 (1999): 77–118.
References
- ^ profile, retrieved 2022-05-04.
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ Anthony, Steel, Michael (1989). Distributions on bicoloured evolutionary trees : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics at Massey University (Doctoral thesis). Massey University.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ President's Report 1994/1995 Archived 2009-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, New Zealand Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ New Zealand Mathematical Society awards, retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ Fellow biography, RSNZ, retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2018-02-14.