Luca Trevisan
Luca Trevisan | |
|---|---|
 Trevisan speaking in 2013 | |
| Born | 21 July 1971 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 19 June 2024 (aged 52) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | La Sapienza |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 theoretical computer science, focusing on randomness, cryptography, probabilistically checkable proofs, approximation, property testing, spectral graph theory, and sublinear algorithms. He also ran a blog, in theory, about theoretical computer science.
Education and career
Trevisan received his PhD from La Sapienza, Rome, under the supervision of Pierluigi Crescenzi.[1] After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and DIMACS, he held an assistant professor position at Columbia University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley and then, in 2010, to 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 Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the 1997 Symposium on Theory of Computing,[3] the Oberwolfach Prize in 2000, and a 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 organised a collection of testimonials by gay theoretical computer scientists on their experiences in the research community.[5]
Trevisan died in Milan after succumbing to cancer 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
- 1971 births
- 2024 deaths
- Columbia University faculty
- Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Italian LGBTQ scientists
- Italian gay men
- Italian emigrants to the United States
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
- Science bloggers
- 21st-century science writers
- Sapienza University of Rome alumni
- Sloan Research Fellows
- Gay academics
- Gay scientists
- Scientists from Rome