- Associate Professor, MTH-142 Coordinator
- Graph Theory
- Phone: 401.874.2709 (Main Office)
- Email: billk@uri.edu
- Office Location: Lippitt Hall 101B
Research
Area: Graph theory
Links: Google Scholar
Current Graduate Student: Antonio Vinagre (Ph.D.)
Graduate Student Research: Capacity to advise additional students (both Ph.D. and MS)
Biography
Bill Kinnersley is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received both a PhD in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Computer Science. After a two-year postdoctoral position at Toronto Metropolitan University, he joined URI in 2014.
Bill’s research primarily concerns games played on graphs, including (but not limited to) pursuit-evasion games, graph searching, and competitive optimization; he also dabbles in computational complexity. He has published 29 peer-reviewed papers and has given numerous talks at national and international conferences. Since joining URI, he has supervised three Ph.D. students. He currently has the capacity to take on additional graduate students and would be happy to discuss possible research and/or paper reading topics – just shoot him an email!
Bill regularly teaches Math 142 (Calculus 2), for which has served as the course coordinator since 2016. He also regularly teaches Math 243 (Calculus 3), Math 447 (Discrete Mathematics), and Math 547 (Combinatorics).
Outside of work, Bill’s life largely revolves around his dogs (two West Highland White Terriers, Maddie and Daisy; pictures available upon request).