Background
Mike Develin was born in Hobart, Tasmania.
Mike Develin was born in Hobart, Tasmania.
He attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was captain of the math team, and entered Harvard University at the age of 16. At 22, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of California-Berkeley, doing his dissertation on Topics in Discrete Geometry.
He currently works as a data scientist at He was awarded the 2003 American Institute of five-year fellowship. Develin is a 2-time Putnam fellowship He studied under advisor Bernd Sturmfels at University of California-Berkeley, and has been noted for work on Stanley"s reciprocity theorem and tight spans.
His 2004 paper, "Tropical Convexity", with Sturmfels, is regarded as one of the seminal papers of tropical geometry, garnering over 150 citations to date.
On January 23, 2014, Develin published a satirical note on behalf on "s data science team, predicting the demise of Princeton University, in response to a research paper by Princeton Doctor of Philosophy candidates predicting the demise of Develin started playing competitive bridge in 2005. Wins Runner-up North American Pairs Flight C 2006 Mini-Spingold II 2007 Develin was naturalized as an American citizen in 2010.
He currently resides in San Francisco, California. Develin organized and maintains SimBase, a simulated baseball league with fictitious players, whose inaugural members also included Jeopardy! Develin occasionally sets up a "free advice" table near the San Francisco Ferry Building.