David P. Dobkin
David Paul Dobkin is the Dean of the Faculty and Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.[1]
Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After receiving a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, he moved to Harvard University for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett.
After teaching at Yale University and the University of Arizona he moved to Princeton in 1981.[2] Initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he was one of the first professors of Computer Science at Princeton when that department was formed in 1985.[3] In 1999, he became the first holder of the Goldman chair after its namesake donated two million dollars to the university.[4] He was chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton from 1994 to 2003, and in 2003 was appointed Dean of the Faculty.[3] David Dobkin also chaired the governing board of The Geometry Center, a NSF-established research and education center at the University of Minnesota.[5]
His Ph.D. students have included Michael Ian Shamos, Bernard Chazelle, and Diane Souvaine.[6]
Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.[7] His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics, and in 1997 he was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to both fields.[8]
References
- ^ "Office of the Dean of the Faculty". Princeton Univ.
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- ^ "Short vita".
from Dobkin's web site
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Additional reading
- Dobkin keeps pace with faculty interests, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, January 9, 2006
External links
- Dobkin's web site at the Princeton Computer Science department
- Dobkin's publications at DBLP
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Yale University faculty
- University of Arizona faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- American computer scientists
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Computer graphics researchers
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Guggenheim Fellows