Srinivasan Named SIAM Fellow

Aravind Srinivasan, a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), has just been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

SIAM is an international community of almost 15,000 members who are focused on the application of mathematics and computational science to engineering, industry, science and society.

Srinivasan is one of 28 SIAM members selected as a Fellow for 2020. This prestigious honor is reserved for SIAM members that have demonstrated exemplary research and scholarship, as well as outstanding service to the scientific community.

In announcing the award, SIAM specifically noted Srinivasan’s “contributions to randomized algorithms and probabilistic methods with applications to network and computational science.”

In addition to this latest honor, Srinivasan is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

He serves as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Algorithms, editor for Theory of Computing, and associate editor for Networks.

Srinivasan received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his doctorate from Cornell University, both in computer science.

The 2020 class of SIAM Fellows will be recognized at a future SIAM meeting.

Srinivasan is the fourth member of UMIACS to be named a SIAM Fellow. Howard Elman, Dianne O’Leary and G.W. “Pete” Stewart previously received this distinction.

—Story by Melissa Brachfeld