Herbert Edelsbrunner
Arts and Sciences Professor

Computer Science and Mathematics

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina 27708

Phone: (919) 660-6545

Email: edels@cs.duke.edu'

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216 Chesley Lane

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514

Phone: (919) 929-8793

Education

• Ph. D. in Technical Mathematics, Graz University of Technology, Austria, June 1982.

• M.S. in Technical Mathematics, Graz University of Technology, Austria, June 1980.

Appointments

• Visiting Professor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, Spring 2002.
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Protein Mechanics Inc., 2001-present.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-present.
• Secondary appointment in Department of Mathematics, Duke University, 2001-present.
• Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 1999-present.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-present.
• Founder and Director of Raindrop Geomagic, Inc., 1996-present.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996-present.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1994-95.
• Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-99.
• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987-90.
• Visitor, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, June-July 1987.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985-87.
• Universitatsassistent, Institut fur Informationsverarbeitung, Graz University of Technology, Austria, 1984-85.
• Vertragsassistent, Institut fur Informationsverarbeitung, Graz University of Technology, Austria, 1981-84.

Fields of Research

• data structures and algorithms
• discrete and computational geometry
• geometric modeling
• mesh generation
• computational topology
• computational structural biology

Awards

Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, 1991.

Other Honors and Awards

· Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professorship 1999--2000, Spring 1999.

· Beckman Fellow in Center of Advanced Study, Fall 1997.

· Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, 1992.

· University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois Foundation, 1990.

· Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 1989.

Dissemination of Research and Software

• Publication of textbooks in computational geometry, 1987 and 2001.
• Publication of more than 100 research articles in mathematics, computer science, and biology journals.
• Development of publicly available software systems for triangulations and shapes in two and three dimensions.
• Development of commercial software system for three-dimensional shape reconstruction, manipulation, and display.