Short BIO:
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I am an American mathematical scientist, educator, writer and editor at ZbMATHOPEN, European Mathematical Society (https://zbmath.org/about/, www.fiz-karlsruhe.de) having earned my BSc (Hon), Masters and PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. My PhD advisor, Doron Lubinsky is Full Professor at Georgia Tech. My research interests include Approximation theory, Harmonic Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Manifold Learning, theoretical Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Artificial intelligence, Potential theory, Quantum computation having 83 published research papers and several in preparation , 4 books and one in preparation. (In addition I have over 100 unpublished notes of various kinds on different aspects of mathematics). (https://www.stevendamelin.com/research.html). I have held several academic positions including Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan, IMA new Directions Professor, University of Minnesota, Full Professor at Georgia Southern University and Editor, Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society. I am a Lumiere research mentor (with particular interests in STEM and Artificial Intelligence research) and also will be a visiting Professor at THWS, Germany November 2026-January 2027.​



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  • (November 2026-January 2027), visiting Professor at THWS, Germany.
  • (2026-Present, Lumiere research menor.
  • (2024-Present) Editor, zbMATH Open (Zentralblatt MATH), European Mathematical Society
    Department of Mathematics,  FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany. 
  • (2019-Present) Mathematical Scientist and Educator, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  •  (2013-2020, 2021-2023) Sponsored Affiliate, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
  • (2020-2021) Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
  • (2013-2019) Associate Editor, Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society, USA and Sponsored affiliate, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
  • (2000-2012) Full, Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Southern University (GSU), USA.
  • (2007-2013) Founder and Director of the Unit for Advances in Mathematics (IUAM), GSU (IUAM is an interdisciplinary university institute with home the College of Science and Mathematics).
  • (2005-2006) New Directions Research Professor, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, USA [on leave].
  • (2008-2011) Visiting Full Professor, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand. [Joint appointment with GSU].
  • (Fall 2007) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand. [On leave].
  • (1999-2000) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, USA [On leave].
  • (1998-2000) Research Associate of the John Knopmacher Centre for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory and Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, the University of the Witwatersrand.
  • (1996-1997) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, USA and Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.

  • Some Wits/South African long term academic friends: Doron Lubinsky Kathy Driver, Percy Deift,  Peter Sarnak, Michael Sears and Pat Cretchley 
  • Some Georgia Southern long term friend pictures: Charles Champ, Jimmy Solomon, Richard Hathaway, Drew Sills
  • Some Mathematical Reviews long term friend pictures: Graeme Fairweather, Patrick Ion