David Avis

David Avis
David Avis

David Avis in 1987
Born March 20, 1951 (1951-03-20) (age 60)
Nationality Canadian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions McGill University
Alma mater Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Václav Chvátal
Doctoral students David Rappaport
Jean-Marc Robert
Thomas Shermer
Rephael Wenger

David Michael Avis (born March 20, 1951) is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations. Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal.

Avis received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Stanford University.[1] He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles. Having written an article with Paul Erdős, Avis has one as his Erdős number. Writing with Komei Fukuda, Avis proposed a criss-cross algorithm for the vertex enumeration problem; their algorithm counts all of the vertices of a convex polytope.[2][3]

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