Roberto Tamassia
Roberto Tamassia is a computer scientist, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and since 2007 has been chair of the Brown Computer Science department.[1] His research specialty is in the design and analysis of algorithms for graph drawing, computational geometry, and computer security; he is also the author of several textbooks.
Professional biography
Tamassia received a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a M.S. degree) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1988.[1][2] He then took a faculty position at Brown; he has also held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and La Sapienza.[1]
Tamassia has nearly 200 publications[3] and is an ISI highly cited researcher.[4] He was one of the original organizers of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, and was co-chair of that conference in 1994; he has also been co-chair of the semiannual Workshop 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 the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications[5] as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.
Awards and honors
In 2006, the IEEE Computer Society gave 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][6] In 2008, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow.[1][7][8] In 2012 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education",[9] and also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]
Books
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Curriculum vitae from Tamassia's web site, retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ↑ TCS Genealogy, ACM SIGACT.
- ↑ DB&LP: Roberto Tamassia.
- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ Roberto Tamassia Named IEEE Fellow, Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., December 12, 2008.
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- ↑ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Advance Technologies in Information Age, ACM, December 11, 2012.
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External links
- Tamassia's home page at Brown.
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Italian computer scientists
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign alumni
- Brown University faculty
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Graph drawing people
- People associated with computer security
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
