Klara Kedem

Klara Kedem
Alma materTel Aviv University
Known forComputational geometry, shape comparison, motion planning, Voronoi diagrams
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Cornell University
Doctoral advisorMicha Sharir

Klara Kedem is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel[1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[2]

Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.[3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison,[ACH] motion planning,[KLP] and Voronoi diagrams.[HKS] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic.[4]

  1. ^ Faculty listing, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
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