Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in applied computing.

Edelman is a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions in numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing, and random matrix theory.

Following a year at Thinking Machines Corporation, and at CERFACS[2] in France, Edelman went to U.C.

A Sloan fellow, Edelman received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career award in 1995.