Carla Savage

Carla Diane Savage is an American computer scientist and mathematician, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University^[1] and a former secretary of the American Mathematical Society (2013-2020).^[2]

Education and research

Savage earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the supervision of David E. Muller; her thesis concerned parallel graph algorithms.^[3] Much of her more recent research has concerned Gray codes and algorithms for efficient generation of combinatorial objects.

Awards and honors

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4] In 2019 she was named a SIAM Fellow "for outstanding research in algorithms of discrete mathematics and in computer science applications, alongside exemplary service to mathematics".^[5]

Selected publications

• Savage, Carla; Ja'Ja', Joseph (1981), "Fast, efficient parallel algorithms for some graph problems", SIAM Journal on Computing, 10 (4): 682–691, doi:10.1137/0210051, MR 0635426, Zbl 0476.68036.
• Savage, Carla (1997), "A survey of combinatorial Gray codes", SIAM Review, 39 (4): 605–629, Bibcode:1997SIAMR..39..605S, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.39.1924, doi:10.1137/S0036144595295272, MR 1491049, Zbl 1049.94513.

References

1. Full professor directory, Computer Science, NCSU, retrieved 2013-07-12.
2. [1], retrieved 2023-03-13.
3. Carla Savage at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-12.
5. SIAM Fellows Class of 2019, retrieved 2019-09-01