Leonidas Guibas | |
|---|---|
 Leonidas Guibas | |
| Nationality | Greek–American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Awards | ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award National Academy of Engineering American Academy of Arts and Sciences ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow ICCV Helmholtz Prize Hertz Fellowship DoD Vennevar Bush Faculty Fellowship National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Knuth |
| Doctoral students | Jie Gao |
Leonidas John Guibas (Greek: Λεωνίδας Γκίμπας) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He heads the Geometric Computation group in the Computer Science Department.
Guibas obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976.[1] He was program chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1996.[2] In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[3] Guibas is a Fellow of the ACM[4] and the IEEE,[5] and was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2007 "for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines."[6] In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7] In 2022 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[8]
- ^ "Leonidas J. Guibas biography". geometry.stanford.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ Program Committees from the Symposium on Computational Geometry, Computational Geometry Steering Committee.
- ^ National Academy of Engineering Elects 84 Members and 22 Foreign Members, February 8, 2017, retrieved 2017-05-02.
- ^ ACM Fellow award citation Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
- ^ ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award Recognizes Leonidas Guibas for Algorithms Advancing CS Fields Archived 2008-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, 2008; "Guibas Receives ACM/AAAI Award for Algorithm Development", Dr. Dobb's, March 4, 2008.
- ^ 2018 FELLOWS AND INTERNATIONAL HONORARY MEMBERS, retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ^ 2022 National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members, retrieved 2022-05-04.