Education
Devadoss graduated as valedictorian from North Central College in 1993. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Jack Morava.
Devadoss graduated as valedictorian from North Central College in 1993. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Jack Morava.
His research concerns topology and geometry, with inspiration coming from theoretical physics, phylogenetics, and scientific visualization. After postdoctoral studies at the Ohio State University under Mike Davis, he joined the Williams College faculty in 2002. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the Ohio State University, Harvey Mudd College, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Stanford University.
With Joseph O"Rourke, Devadoss is the author of the textbook Discrete and Computational Geometry (Princeton University Press, 2011).
He is also the creator of Shape of Nature, a 36-lecture Digital Video Disc course (Great Courses, 2010). In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
He is the cofounder of CereusData, a data visualization company that focuses on storytelling of institutional data. His collection of paintings, titled "Cartography of Tree Space", was jointly created with San Francisco based artist Owen Schuh.
