S. L. Hakimi
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Seifollah Louis Hakimi (1932–June 23, 2006)[1] was an Iranian-American mathematician born in Iran, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University, where he chaired the department of electrical engineering from 1973 to 1978.[2] He was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1996.[1]
Born in Mashhad, Iran, to an Iranian Jewish family, Hakimi moved to the United States in the early 1950s.[3] He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1959, under the supervision of Mac Van Valkenburg. He has over 100 academic descendants, most of them via his student Narsingh Deo.[4]
He is known for characterizing the degree sequences of undirected graphs,[5] for formulating the Steiner tree problem on networks,[6] and for his work on facility location problems on networks.[7]
