Tetsuo Asano (, born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)
Australasian Computer Science Week 2006, retrieved 2014-03-25. is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is a postgraduate university in Japan, established in 1990. JAIST was established in the centre of Ishikawa Science Park (ISP). It is to the south of Kanazawa City. JAIST has programs of advanced research and development in science and technol ...

.Faculty profile
JAIST, retrieved 2014-03-25. His main research interest is in

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 ...

Education and career

Asano was a student at

Osaka University , abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...

, earning bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees there in 1972, 1974, and 1977. He was on the faculty of

Osaka Electro-Communication University , OECU is a private university in Japan. The main campus is located in Neyagawa, Osaka, Neyagawa-shi, Osaka Prefecture. History The predecessor of the school was founded in 1924, and it was chartered as a university in 1961. *In 1924, was esta ...

from 1977 until 1998, when he joined JAIST. From 2012 to 2014 he was dean of the School of Information Science at JAIST. He became president of JAIST in April 2014

Awards and honors

In 2001 he was elected as a fellow of the

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"for his contributions to discrete algorithms on computational geometry and their practical applications to computer vision and VLSI design."ACM Fellow award citation
retrieved 2014-03-25. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Selected publications

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Asano, Tetsuo 1949 births Living people Japanese computer scientists Researchers in geometric algorithms Osaka University alumni Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery