Erich Kaltofen

Erich Kaltofen received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1982 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and an Assistant, Associate, and Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since 1996 he is a Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University, since 2018 he is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. He has held visiting positions at ENS Lyon, MIT, UPMC Paris, U. Grenoble, and U. Waterloo. His research interests are theoretical aspects of symbolic computation and its application to computational problems. Kaltofen was the Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Symbolic & Algebraic Manipulation 1993-95. In 2009 Kaltofen was selected an ACM Fellow.