Lennox E. Superville

Lennox Emmanuel Superville (born June 10, 1942) is a Trinidadian-American professor, mathematician, and engineer.

Early life and education Lennox E. Superville was born on June 10, 1942, in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago. While attending Nelson Street Boys' R.C. School in Port of Spain, Trinidad, his mother unexpectedly died from a heart attack at St. Ann's Hospital Port of Spain, Trinidad.

After transitioning from Nelson Street Boys' RC School in 1955, he enrolled at Osmond High School in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago.

On August 28, 1966, he moved to New York City to pursue his Ph.D. in mathematics. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Hunter College, New York City, in 1970, followed by his master of arts in 1972. He then completed his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1978, becoming the first Trinidadian American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Superville's doctoral advisor was Alan Jerome Hoffman. His doctoral thesis was Various Aspects of Max Algebra.

Career Superville started teaching Mathematics at Hunter College, New York City as an adjunct professor in 1972 and became a tenured assistant professor in 1978. He also lectured as an adjunct professor in Basic Programming at Columbia University in the New York City in Summer 1977, Biostatistics for Nurses at St. Joseph College Brooklyn, 1978, and was the editor and author of Basic Skills: Arithmetic and Algebra, A modular Approach (1978, 1979) for first-year students entering CUNY under Open Admissions. Superville was Co-Chair of the Journal of the CUNY Mathematics Discussion Group (1978-79).

In 2010, Superville joined Keshav Consulting in Cary, North Carolina as a Senior Advisor and was the Principal Investigator in generating Photovoltaic electricity from US Roadways. After he retired from NCOSA in January 2009, he founded Infosysarchitecture. Since 2017, he has been working with National Energy Partners on solar power and photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Research and current academic work In 2012, Superville joined ITT Technical Institute as an adjunct professor to teach advanced calculus, specializing in elementary-point set theory and properties of continuous functions, differential equations, and Fourier analysis.

Superville currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.