Sara Billey
Sara Billey is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington. Her main areas of interest are Combinatorics, Lie Theory, and Algebraic Geometry. She credits her family for introducing her to discrete mathematics at a very early age through endless hours of playing cribbage and whist. Professor Billey received her bachelor's degree from MIT in 1990 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1994. At UCSD, she was supported by the National Physical Science Consortium. Upon graduation she was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at MIT and a University of California Presidential Postdoc to return to San Diego. In 1998 she joined the faculty at MIT as an assistant professor and in 2002 she was promoted to associate professor. She received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000 and MIT's "Class of 1922 Career Development Professorship" in 2001. One member of MIT's class of 1922 was still alive in 2001. Professor Billey joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2003. You can easily find out more about her by googling "sara math", her web page typically comes up first. Her only other claim to fame is her ability to unicycle while in the third trimester of pregnancy.