Sue Whitesides
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Doctoral advisorRichard Bruck
DisciplineMathematics, computer science
Sue Whitesides | |
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 Sue Whitesides at the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing in 2012 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Thesis | Collineations of Projective Planes of Order 10 (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Bruck |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics, computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Computational geometry, graph drawing |
| Institutions | University of Victoria Dartmouth College |
| Doctoral students | Vida Dujmović |
Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.[1][2] Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.
Whitesides received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the supervision of Richard Bruck.[3] Before joining the University of Victoria faculty, she taught at Dartmouth College and McGill University;[3] at McGill, she was director of the School of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008.[4][5]
