| Jesús Antonio De Loera | |
| Birth Date: | 18 January 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City[1] |
| Nationality: | Mexican, American |
| Fields: | Mathematics, Combinatorial Optimization |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Davis |
| Alma Mater: | Cornell University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Bernd Sturmfels |
| Doctoral Students: | Ruriko Yoshida |
| Known For: | Research in combinatorial optimization |
Jesús Antonio De Loera (born January 18, 1966) is a Mexican-American mathematician at the University of California, Davis, specializing in discrete mathematics and discrete geometry.[2]
De Loera did his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, earning a B.S. in mathematics in 1989.After earning a master's degree from Western Michigan University a year later, and another master's degree in 1993 from Cornell University, he finished his doctorate from Cornell in 1995 under the supervision of Bernd Sturmfels.[2]
De Loera joined the UC Davis faculty as an assistant professor in 1998, and was promoted to full professor in 2005.[2] He served on the scientific advisory board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021.[3]
In 2014, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to discrete geometry and combinatorial optimization as well as for service to the profession, including mentoring and diversity".[4] In 2019 he was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to discrete geometry and optimization, polynomial algebra, and mathematical software".[5] In 2020 he received the INFORMS optimization society's Farkas Prize "in recognition of his pioneering work at the intersection of discrete mathematics, optimization and algebraic geometry".[6] He delivered an invited plenary address at the 2021 National Math Festival.[7] In 2021, he was elected vice president of the AMS.[8]