Erik Demaine

Quick Facts

Full Name	Erik Demaine
Occupation	Professor
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1981(1981-02-28)
Age	43
Birthplace	Halifax
Country	Canada
Birth City	Nova Scotia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Erik Demaine Biography

Erik Demaine is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on February 28, 1981 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Erik D. Demaine (born 28 February 1981) is an associate Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an ex-child prodigy.

Mathematical origami art created by Erik along with Martin Demaine was part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in the year 2008 and was placed in MoMA’s permanent collection. MoMA Permanent Collection. The year, he was one of the artists who were featured of Between the Folds, an international documentary film on origami artists that was later shown by PBS television. He is the president and director of the board for Gathering 4 Gardner.

For his work on bidimensionality, he was the winner of the Nerode Prize in 2015 along with his co-authors Fedor Fomin, Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, and Dimitrios Thilikos. The work was the study of a general technique for developing both fixed-parameter tractable exact algorithms and approximation algorithms for a class of algorithmic problems on graphs.

In 2016, he became a fellow at the Association for Computing Machinery. He was given an honorary doctorate by Bard College in 2017.

Demaine graduated with a bachelor’s degree when he was 14 years old and was enrolled at Dalhousie University in Canada, and he completed the PhD in the University of Waterloo by the age of 20. older. Demaine’s PhD dissertation, which dealt with research in the area of computational origami was written by the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Anna Lubiw and Ian Munro. The work was awarded by the Canadian Governor General’s gold Medal by the University of Waterloo and the NSERC Doctoral Prize (2003) for the most outstanding research and dissertation in Canada. The work of this thesis was later integrated in the book Geometric Folding Algorithms on the maths of folding paper together with Joseph O’Rourke in 2007.

Erik Demaine Net Worth

Erik Demaine is one of the richest Professor from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Erik Demaine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Demaine was appointed to the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001, aged 20. He was reportedly the newest faculty member in history at MIT and was elevated to full professorship in the year 2011. Demaine is a part of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

The year 2003 was the time Demaine got her MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius grant”.

In 2013, Demaine received the EATCS Presburger Award for young scientists. The award citation listed accomplishments including his work on the carpenter’s rule problem, hinged dissection, prefix sum data structures, competitive analysis of binary search trees, graph minors, and computational origami. That same year, he was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Erik Ranked on the list of most popular Professor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Erik Demaine celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.

Who is the youngest professor at MIT?

Demaine joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001 at age 20, reportedly the youngest professor in the history of MIT, and was promoted to full professorship in 2011. Demaine is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Is Erik Demaine a genius?

Assistant Professor Erik Demaine of electrical engineering and computer science–who last month was called one of the most brilliant scientists in America by Popular Science magazine –is one of the youngest people ever selected for the fellowship and the youngest of the 24 named this year.

How much are MIT professors paid?

How much does a Professor at MIT make? The typical MIT Professor salary is US$202,905 per year. Professor salaries at MIT can range from US$100,000 – US$326,569 per year.

Can I get into MIT at 16?

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Who is the youngest graduate from MIT?

Michael Kearney
Born| January 18, 1984 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Known for| Child prodigy, youngest person ever to graduate from college (age 10 years)