Ileana Streinu facts for kids
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Ileana Streinu
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| Alma mater | University of Bucharest Rutgers University |
| Known for | Work on kinematics, structural rigidity |
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| Fields | Computer Science, Mathematics |
| Institutions | Smith College |
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| Doctoral advisors | Solomon Marcus William L. Steiger |
Ileana Streinu is a smart Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is famous for her work in computational geometry, which is about solving geometry problems using computers. She also studies kinematics (how things move) and structural rigidity (how strong structures are).
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About Ileana Streinu
Ileana Streinu studied at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She earned two special degrees called doctorates in 1994. One was in mathematics and computer science from the University of Bucharest. The other was in computer science from Rutgers University in the United States.
In 1994, she started working at the computer science department at Smith College. Later, in 2005, she also began teaching mathematics there. By 2009, she became a special professor called the Charles N. Clark Professor. She also teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
At Smith College, Professor Streinu helps lead a program called the Biomathematical Sciences Concentration. This program teaches students how to use math and computers to understand biology. She has helped get a lot of money to support this important work.
Awards and Special Honors
Ileana Streinu has won many important awards for her amazing work.
Grigore Moisil Award
In 2006, she won the Grigore Moisil Award from the Romanian Academy. She won this award with her colleague Ciprian Borcea. They showed that certain types of strong structures, called minimally rigid graphs, can only be arranged in a limited number of ways. They used advanced math to figure this out.
David P. Robbins Prize
In 2010, Professor Streinu won the David P. Robbins Prize from the American Mathematical Society. She won it for solving a tricky problem called the carpenter's rule problem. Imagine a shape made of stiff sticks connected by flexible joints, like a ruler that folds. The problem was to show that you can always fold such a shape into a simple, non-crossing, convex shape without breaking it.
Ileana Streinu found a clever way to solve this. She showed that you can always make the shape more convex, step by step, until it becomes a simple, non-crossing shape.
American Mathematical Society Fellow
In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This is a very high honor for mathematicians. It means she is recognized as a leading expert in her field.
Selected Publications
- Her research papers are often published in top scientific journals.
- These papers share her new discoveries with other scientists around the world.
See also
In Spanish: Ileana Streinu para niños
