Seth Sullivant received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley.  After a Junior Fellowship in Harvard's Society of Fellows, he joined the department of mathematics at North Carolina State University in 2008 as an assistant professor.  He was promoted to full professor in 2014 and distinguished professor in 2018.  Sullivant's work has been honored with a Packard Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award and he was selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.  He helped to found the SIAM activity group in Algebraic Geometry where he has served as both secretary and chair.  Sullivant's current research interests include algebraic statistics, mathematical phylogenetics, applied algebraic geometry, and combinatorics.