NC State Mathematician Receives Packard Award

Dr. Seth Sullivant, assistant professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering valued at $875,000 over five years.

The Packard Fellowship is awarded by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and supports creative researchers early in their careers. Sullivant is one of 16 recipients this year.

The award will support Sullivant’s research in applying techniques from algebra to address theoretical and computational problems in statistics and biology.

Sullivant joined NC State in 2008, after serving three years as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. A native of San Diego, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. He received his master’s degree in mathematics from San Francisco State in 2002, and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000.

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