Jean-Daniel Boissonnat (born 18 May 1953) is a French
computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
, who works as a director of research at the
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA).
He is an invited professor of
computational geometry
Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...
at the
Collège de France, holding the Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences for 2016–2017.
Boissonat was one of the founders of the
CGAL
The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) is an open source software library of computational geometry algorithms. While primarily written in C++, Scilab bindings and bindings generated with SWIG (supporting Python and Java for now) ar ...
project for implementing geometric algorithms.
With
Mariette Yvinec, he is the author of the book ''
Algorithmic Geometry
''Algorithmic Geometry'' is a textbook on computational geometry. It was originally written in the French language by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Mariette Yvinec, and published as ''Géometrie algorithmique'' by Edusciences in 1995. It was transl ...
'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998, translated from a 1995 edition in French). With Yvinec and Frédéric Chazal, he is the coauthor of ''
Geometric and Topological Inference
''Geometric and Topological Inference'' is a monograph in computational geometry, computational topology, geometry processing, and topological data analysis, on the problem of inferring properties of an unknown space from a finite point cloud ...
'' (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
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Awards and honours
* 1987: IBM award in Computer Science
* 2006: EADS award in Information Sciences
* 2006: Knight of National Order of Merit
* 2013: ANR Digital Technology Award
References
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French computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
1953 births
Living people
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