Erik Demaine
Erik D. Demaine is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former child prodigy.
Demaine was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the artist sculptor Martin L. Demaine and Judy Anderson. Demaine was a child prodigy at age 7, he spent time traveling North America with his father, and he was homeschooled until entering college at the age of 12.
Source: Wikipedia