Roberto Tamassia
Roberto Tamassiais anAmericanItaliancomputer scientist,the Plastech Professor of Computer Science atBrown University,and served as the chair of the Brown Computer Science department from 2007 to 2014.[1]His research specialty is in the design and analysis ofalgorithmsforgraph drawing,computational geometry,andcomputer security;he is also the author of several textbooks.
Professional biography
[edit]Tamassia received alaurea(the Italian equivalent of an M.S. degree) from theUniversity of Rome "La Sapienza"in 1984, and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignunder the supervision ofFranco Preparatain 1988.[1][2]He then took a faculty position at Brown; he has also held visiting positions at theUniversity of Texas at Dallas,theConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,and La Sapienza.[1]
Tamassia is anISI highly cited researcher.[3]He was one of the original organizers of theInternational Symposium on Graph Drawing,and was co-chair of that conference in 1994; he has also been co-chair of the semiannualWorkshop on Algorithms and Data Structures(1997, 1999, and 2001) and the annual Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (2005). He is founding editor-in-chief (since 1996) of theJournal of Graph Algorithms and Applications[4]as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.
Awards and honors
[edit]In 2006, theIEEE Computer Societygave Tamassia their Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms."[1][5]In 2008, he was elected as anIEEE Fellow.[1][6][7]In 2012 he was named a fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery"for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education",[8]and also named a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Tamassia was married toIsabel Cruz,also a noted computer scientist, until her death in 2021.[10]
Books
[edit]- Goodrich, M. T.;Tamassia, R. (1998),Data Structures and Algorithms in Java,Wiley.Fourth edition, 2005.
- Di Battista, G.;Eades, P.;Tamassia, R.; Tollis, I. G. (1999),Graph Drawing,Prentice-Hall,ISBN978-0-13-301615-4.
- Goodrich, M. T.;Tamassia, R. (2002),Algorithm Design,Wiley.
- Goodrich, M. T.;Tamassia, R.; Mount, D. (2003),Data Structures and Algorithms in C++,Wiley
References
[edit]- ^abcdeCurriculum vitaefrom Tamassia's web site, retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^TCS Genealogy,ACM SIGACT.
- ^Profs. Preparata and Tamassia Among Most Highly Cited Computer Scientists,Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., February 19, 2007.
- ^Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications web site.
- ^Ward, Bob (2008), "Computer Society Connection",IEEE Computer,41(2): 82–87,doi:10.1109/MC.2008.45.
- ^Roberto Tamassia Named IEEE Fellow,Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., December 12, 2008.
- ^"Introducing the new class of fellows",The Institute,March 2009, archived fromthe originalon June 4, 2011.
- ^ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Advance Technologies in Information AgeArchived2012-12-12 at theWayback Machine,ACM, December 11, 2012.
- ^"AAAS Members Elected as Fellows",Science,338(6111): 1168–1171, November 30, 2012,doi:10.1126/science.338.6111.1166.
- ^Tamassia, Roberto,Isabel Cruz,retrieved2023-05-25
External links
[edit]- Tamassia's home pageat Brown.
- Roberto Tamassiapublications indexed byGoogle Scholar
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Italian computer scientists
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
- Brown University faculty
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Graph drawing people
- Computer security academics
- Fellows of the IEEE
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 20th-century Italian scientists
- 21st-century Italian scientists
- 20th-century American scientists
- 21st-century American scientists
- National Research Council (Italy) people