18 Facts About Michael Fellows

Until January 2016, Michael Fellows was professor at Charles Darwin University, Australia, and Director of the Parameterized Complexity Research Unit.

Michael Fellows has taught in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as in the UK and Europe; and has given invited talks around the world.

In 2014 Michael Fellows became one of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

In 2007, Michael Fellows was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

Michael Fellows was awarded an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship for five years, beginning 2010.

Michael Fellows is an Area Editor for the Journal of Computer and System Sciences since 2004, and Advising Editor for the special Section on Parameterized Complexity in the same journal.

Michael Fellows is Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Algorithms.

Michael Fellows is Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Parameterized Complexity in the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization to be published in 2010.

Michael Fellows is a member of the Steering Committee for the conference series International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, proceedings published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Michael Fellows is an organizer of the Creative Mathematical Sciences Communication conference series.

Michael Fellows wrote a series of passion plays about mathematics which were presented at the Victoria Fringe Festival and at NCTM at Asilimar in 1999.

Michael Fellows is recognized as one of the founders of parameterized complexity, a complexity framework that uses structure in hard problems for the design and analysis of algorithms for their solution.

Michael Fellows was presented with a Springer festschrift: The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond - Essays Dedicated Michael R Fellows on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday.

Michael Fellows is the second person whose primary research area is algorithms to receive this honor.

Honorary Michael Fellows include Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Darwin, Fleming, Priestley, Richter, Rutherford, altogether 230 since 1870.

Michael Fellows is visiting professor at Royal Holloway University of London.

Michael Fellows is the author of several passion plays about mathematics, with mathematical proofs enacted on-stage, which were performed at the Fringe Theatre in British Columbia.

Michael Fellows has published five books and over 150 scientific articles.