Otfried Cheong (formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in

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. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook ''Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications'' (with

Mark de Berg Mark de Berg is a Dutch computational geometer, known as one of the authors of the textbook ''Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications'' (with Otfried Cheong, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars, Springer, 1997; 3rd ed., 2008). De Be ...

Marc van Kreveld Marc Johan van Kreveld is a Dutch computational geometer, known as one of the authors of the textbook ''Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications'' (with Mark de Berg, Otfried Cheong, and Mark Overmars, Springer, 1997; 3rd ed., 2008) ...

, and

Mark Overmars Markus Hendrik Overmars (; born 29 September 1958 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application GameMaker. GameMaker lets people create computer games using a dra ...

) and as the developer of

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, a

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. Cheong completed his doctorate from the

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in 1992 under the supervision of

Helmut Alt Helmut Alt (born 1950) is a German computer scientist whose research concerns graph algorithms and computational geometry. He is known for his work on matching geometric shapes, including methods for efficiently computing the Fréchet distance be ...

. He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions at

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Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, South Korea. History POSTECH was established in 1986 in Pohang, Korea by POSCO, a steel company. POSTECH hosted POSCO's Research Institute of Sc ...

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, and the

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. Cheong was co-chair of the

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in 2006, with

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. In 2017 he was recognized by the

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as a Distinguished Scientist..

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