Dr. Knudson earned his B.S. in mathematics at Virginia Tech in 1990; his master's the next year; and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke University in 1996. He then took a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the mathematics department at Northwestern University. His first tenure-track job was at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He spent three years there, leaving in 2002 for his current job at Mississippi State.
