Roberto Tamassia is an

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, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, and served as the chair of the Brown Computer Science department from 2007 to 2014.Curriculum vitae
from Tamassia's web site, retrieved 2009-07-16. His research specialty is in the design and analysis of

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for

graph drawing Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graph (discrete mathematics), graphs arising from applications such a ...

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 ...

, and

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; he is also the author of several textbooks.

Professional biography

Tamassia received a ''laurea'' (the Italian equivalent of an M.S. degree) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1988. He then took a faculty position at Brown; he has also held visiting positions at the

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

, the

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, and La Sapienza. Tamassia is an

ISI highly cited researcher The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, ...

. He was one of the original organizers of the

International Symposium on Graph Drawing The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of network information, geometric graph theory, and related topics. S ...

, and was co-chair of that conference in 1994; he has also been co-chair of the semiannual Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (1997, 1999, and 2001) and the annual Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (2005). He is founding editor-in-chief (since 1996) of the ''

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'' as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.

Awards and honors

In 2006, the

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gave Tamassia their Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms." In 2008, he was elected as an

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

. In 2012 he was named a fellow of the

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"for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education", and also named a fellow of the

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Books

*. Fourth edition, 2005. *. *. *

References

External links

Tamassia's home page
at Brown. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamassia, Roberto Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Italian computer scientists University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Brown University faculty Researchers in geometric algorithms Graph drawing people Computer security academics Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 20th-century Italian scientists 21st-century Italian scientists 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American scientists National Research Council (Italy) people