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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
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in
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,
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. Her research specializations include computational geometry and
graph drawing Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graph (discrete mathematics), graphs arising from applications such ...
.


Education and career

Whitesides received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1975 from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...
, under the supervision of
Richard Bruck Richard Hubert Bruck (December 26, 1914 – December 18, 1991) was an American mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Biography Bruck studied at the Univ ...
. Before joining the University of Victoria faculty, she taught at
Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...
and
McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...
; at McGill, she was director of the School of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008.


Service

Whitesides was the program chair for the 1998
International Symposium on Graph Drawing The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of Network theory, network information, geometric graph theory, and re ...
and program co-chair for the 2012
Symposium on Computational Geometry The International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) is an academic conference in computational geometry. Today its acronym is pronounced "sausage." It was founded in 1985, with the program committee consisting of David Dobkin, Joseph O'Rou ...
.SoCG 2012 web site
retrieved 2012-09-30.


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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian computer scientists Canadian women computer scientists University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies alumni Dartmouth College faculty Academic staff of McGill University Academic staff of the University of Victoria Graph drawing people Researchers in geometric algorithms 20th-century Canadian mathematicians 21st-century Canadian mathematicians 20th-century Canadian women mathematicians 21st-century Canadian women mathematicians {{Compu-scientist-stub