Education
Daniel Spielman attended The Philadelphia School, Episcopal Academy, and Germantown Friends School. He received his bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and computer science from Yale University in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy in applied mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 (his dissertation was called "Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs"). He taught in the Mathematics Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996 to 2005.