Satyan Devadoss

Advisory Board Member

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Satyan is currently the Fletcher Jones Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Diego.  Before coming to California, he was faculty at Williams for nearly 15 years, along with visiting positions at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Ohio State, Université Nice, Harvey Mudd, MSRI, and Stanford. 

A fellow of the American Mathematical Society and recipient of two national teaching awards, Satyan strives to empower those in the humanities and the arts to have an equal seat at STEM table. This has driven his research in origami geometry, computational cartography, foldable architecture, sonnet linguistics, and beer genetics. Underneath this framework lies his strong desire for physical creations, for they point to the larger belief that mathematics should be made incarnate and tangible, for the physical world matters. To this end, his Math Studio serves as an incubator and promoter of an embodied experience, where digital technology is eschewed in favor of the human senses.

He is a satisfactory father, a jubilant grandfather, and married to a queen.