David Eppstein

David Eppstein
Born	David Arthur Eppstein 1963 (age 52–53) [1] England
Residence	Irvine, California
Citizenship	American
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of California, Irvine
Alma mater	Stanford University Columbia University
Thesis	Efficient algorithms for sequence analysis with concave and convex gap costs (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Zvi Galil
Known for	Computational geometry Graph algorithms Recreational mathematics

David Arthur Eppstein (born 1963) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a Chancellor's Professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine.^[2] He is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics. In 2011, he was named an ACM Fellow.

Biography

He received a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1984, and later an M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1989) in computer science from Columbia University, after which he took a postdoctoral position at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1990, and was co-chair of the Computer Science Department there from 2002 to 2005.^[3] In 2014, he was named a Chancellor's Professor.^[4]

Research interests

In computer science, Eppstein's research is focused mostly in computational geometry: minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, dynamic graph data structures, graph coloring, graph drawing and geometric optimization. He has published also in application areas such as finite element meshing, which is used in engineering design, and in computational statistics, particularly in robust, multivariate, nonparametric statistics.

Eppstein served as the program chair for the theory track of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2001, the program chair of the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms in 2002, and the co-chair for the International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2009.^[5]

Other interests

Since 2007, Eppstein has been an administrator at the English Wikipedia.^[3]

Awards

In 1981 he received a National Merit Scholarship and in 1984 he was awarded with a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. In 1992, Eppstein received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award along with six other UC-Irvine academics.^[6] In 2011, he was named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to graph algorithms and computational geometry.^[7]

See also

• Eppstein's algorithm

Selected publications

• Eppstein, David (1999). "Finding the k shortest paths". SIAM Journal on Computing. 28 (2): 652–673. doi:10.1109/SFCS.1994.365697.
• D. Eppstein, Z. Galil, G. F. Italiano, A. Nissenzweig (1997). "Sparsification—a technique for speeding up dynamic graph algorithms". Journal of the ACM. 44 (5): 669–696. doi:10.1145/265910.265914.
• N. Amenta; M. Bern; D. Eppstein (1998). "The Crust and the β-Skeleton: Combinatorial Curve Reconstruction". Graphical Models and Image Processing. 60 (2): 125. doi:10.1006/gmip.1998.0465.
• M. Bern; D. Eppstein (1992). "Mesh generation and optimal triangulation" (PDF). Technical Report CSL-92-1. Xerox PARC. Republished in D.-Z. Du; F.K. Hwang, eds. (1992). Computing in Euclidean Geometry. World Scientific. pp. 23–90.

Books

• D. Eppstein, J.-Cl. Falmagne, and S. Ovchinnikov (2008). Media Theory. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-09083-7.

References

1. Eppstein, David. "11011110 - User Profile". livejournal.com. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
2. "Chancellor's Professors - UCI". Retrieved November 1, 2016.
3. "David Eppstein's Online Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved April 9, 2008.
4. "UCI Chancellor's Professors". Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
5. 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
6. Lindgren, Kristina (21 July 1992). "IRVINE : UCI Scientists Win Research Grants". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
7. ACM Fellows:David Eppstein, Association for Computing Machinery. December, 2011.

External links

• "David Eppstein". Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
• "David Eppstein Bibliography". The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
• "Eppstein's Geometry Junkyard". Retrieved August 15, 2008.
• David Eppstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• "David Eppstein". Microsoft Academic Search.
• David Eppstein's Wikipedia userpage