Leonidas J. Guibas

Leonidas Guibas
Leonidas Guibas
Residence U.S.
Nationality Greek-American
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Donald Knuth

Leonidas John Guibas (Greek: Λεωνίδας Γκίμπας) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories.

Education and career

Guibas was a student of Donald Knuth at Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976.[1] He has worked for several industrial research laboratories, and joined the Stanford faculty in 1984. He was program chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1996.[2]

Research

The research contributions Guibas is known for include finger trees, red-black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion.

He has Erdős number 2 due to his collaborations with Boris Aronov, Andrew Odlyzko, János Pach, Richard M. Pollack, Endre Szemerédi, and Frances Yao.[3]

Awards and honors

Guibas is a Fellow of the ACM[4] and the IEEE,[5] and was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2007 "for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines."[6] In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[7] In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Leonidas John (Ioannis) Guibas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ↑ Program Committees from the Symposium on Computational Geometry, Computational Geometry Steering Committee.
  3. ↑ Erdős number project.
  4. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine..
  5. ↑ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
  6. ↑ ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award Recognizes Leonidas Guibas for Algorithms Advancing CS Fields, ACM, 2008; "Guibas Receives ACM/AAAI Award for Algorithm Development", Dr. Dobb's, March 4, 2008 .
  7. ↑ National Academy of Engineering Elects 84 Members and 22 Foreign Members, February 8, 2017, retrieved 2017-05-02.
  8. ↑ 2018 FELLOWS AND INTERNATIONAL HONORARY MEMBERS, retrieved 2018-05-17.
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