# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-edelman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:53.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-edelman"
name: "Alan Edelman"
slug: "alan-edelman"
description: "Alan Stuart Edelman is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in applied computing. In 2004, he founded a business called Interactive Supercomputing which was later acquired by Microsoft. Edelman is a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions in numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing, and random matrix theory. He is one of the creators of the technical programming language Julia."
tagline: "American mathematician and computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Edelman_1999_(headshot).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.023904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ألان إيدلمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman"
    title: "Alan Edelman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman"
    title: "Alan Edelman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman"
    title: "Alan Edelman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman"
    title: "Alan Edelman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14491910"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump