Mason A. Porter is an American mathematician, physicist, and social scientist currently at the University of California, Los Angeles.
For his graduate studies, he went to the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, where he worked on quantum billiards.
His collaborators include Danielle Bassett, Andrea Bertozzi, Charlotte Deane, and Heather Harrington.
[citation needed] In 2014, he received an Erdős–Rényi Prize, recognizing his work on the mathematics of networks and his outreach efforts.
[6] In 2015, he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in recognition of his interdisciplinary research, particularly the detection of communities in networks.