Otfried Cheong(Korean:오트프리드 정;formerlyOtfried Schwarzkopf) is a Germancomputational geometerworking inSouth KoreaatKAIST.He is known as one of the authors of the widely usedcomputational geometry textbookComputational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications(withMark de Berg,Marc van Kreveld,andMark Overmars)[1]and as the developer ofIpe,avector graphics editor.
Cheong completed his doctorate from theFree University of Berlinin 1992 under the supervision ofHelmut Alt.[2] He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions atUtrecht University,Pohang University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,and theEindhoven University of Technology.[3]Cheong was co-chair of theSymposium on Computational Geometryin 2006, withNina Amenta.[4] In 2017 he was recognized by theAssociation for Computing Machineryas a Distinguished Scientist.[5]
References
edit- ^Reviews ofComputational Geometry:
- Hecker, Hans-Dietrich (1998),Mathematical Reviews,doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9,ISBN978-3-662-03429-3,MR1470713,S2CID45679469
{{citation}}:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Giblin, Peter (March 2001),The Mathematical Gazette,85(502): 175–176,doi:10.2307/3620533,JSTOR3620533,S2CID126002833
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- Hecker, Hans-Dietrich (1998),Mathematical Reviews,doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9,ISBN978-3-662-03429-3,MR1470713,S2CID45679469
- ^Otfried Cheongat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^Faculty profile at KAIST,retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ^Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Computational geometry,Association for Computing Machinery,retrieved 2015-06-29.
- ^"ACM Recognizes 45 Distinguished Members", Milestones,Communications of the ACM,60(2): 20, February 2017.
External links
edit- Otfried Cheongpublications indexed byGoogle Scholar
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