Washington Mio

Washington Mio is a mathematician specializing in geometric topology and shape analysis. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and served as the chair of Florida State University's mathematics department.

Career Mio earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from State University of Campinas, Brazil in 1978. Two years later he finished his M.S. in mathematics from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada. Mio completed his Ph.D. at New York University in 1984 with Sylvain Cappell as his advisor. His dissertation was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In 1996 Mio, along with John Bryant, Steven Ferry, and Shmuel Weinberger, disproved James Cannon's influential Resolution Conjecture using surgery theory.

In 2004 Mio, together with Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, and Shantanu H. Joshi, introduced a widely used method for analyzing and automatically classifying shapes based on geodesic paths.

Awards In 2015, Mio was inducted as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to topology as well as to the mathematics, statistics, and applications of shape analysis."

Florida State University awarded Mio the title of Distinguished Research Professor in 2023 and made him the inaugural Roger W. Roberts Professor of Mathematics in 2024.

Selected publications