Douglas B. West

Douglas West
Born	1953
Alma mater	Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics (graph theory)
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Kleitman
Doctoral students	Ed Scheinerman

Douglas Brent West is a professor of graph theory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978; his advisor was Daniel Kleitman. He is the "W" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes West. He is the editor of the journal Discrete Mathematics.