Otfried Cheong

Otfried Cheong (Korean: 오트프리드 정; formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars)[1] and as the developer of Ipe, a vector graphics editor.

Cheong completed his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Alt.[2] He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions at Utrecht University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Eindhoven University of Technology.[3] Cheong was co-chair of the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2006, with Nina Amenta.[4] In 2017 he was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Scientist.[5]

  1. ^ Reviews of Computational Geometry:
    • Hecker, Hans-Dietrich (1998), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9, ISBN 978-3-662-03429-3, MR 1470713, S2CID 45679469{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Giblin, Peter (March 2001), The Mathematical Gazette, 85 (502): 175–176, doi:10.2307/3620533, JSTOR 3620533, S2CID 126002833{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  2. ^ Otfried Cheong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Faculty profile at KAIST, retrieved 2017-02-20.
  4. ^ Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Computational geometry, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2015-06-29.
  5. ^ "ACM Recognizes 45 Distinguished Members", Milestones, Communications of the ACM, 60 (2): 20, February 2017.