Tamal K. Dey

Tamal K. Dey is currently an associate professor in the computer science department of Ohio State University. His research interest includes computational geometry, computational topology and their applications in graphics and geometric modeling. Currently his research focuses on understanding shapes in the context of various computational applications including mesh generation. After finishing his PhD from Purdue University in 1991 he spent a year in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a post doctoral fellow. Before joining Ohio State University he has held academic positions in Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and Max-Planck Institute, Germany. He has authored over fifty papers in the area of discrete and computational geometry.