David P. Dobkin

David Paul Dobkin is the Dean of the Faculty and Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.^[1]

Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After receiving a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, he moved to Harvard University for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett.

After teaching at Yale University and the University of Arizona he moved to Princeton in 1981.^[2] Initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he was one of the first professors of Computer Science at Princeton when that department was formed in 1985.^[3] In 1999, he became the first holder of the Goldman chair after its namesake donated two million dollars to the university.^[4] He was chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton from 1994 to 2003, and in 2003 was appointed Dean of the Faculty.^[3] David Dobkin also chaired the governing board of The Geometry Center, a NSF-established research and education center at the University of Minnesota.^[5]

His Ph.D. students have included Michael Ian Shamos, Bernard Chazelle, and Diane Souvaine.^[6]

Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.^[7] His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics, and in 1997 he was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to both fields.^[8]

References

1. ^ Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Princeton Univ.
2. ^ Biography from Dobkin's web site.
3. ^ ^{a b} David Dobkin named dean of faculty, E-quad news, Princeton University, Summer 2003.; COS professor appointed new dean of the faculty, Daily Princetonian, April 14, 2003.
4. ^ Princeton's Computer Science Chair Appointed First Goldman Professor, Princeton University, January 14, 1999; Three to hold endowed chairs, E-quad news, Princeton University, Winter 1998–1999.
5. ^ "Post-mortem on the Geometry Center" Math in the Media (AMS)
6. ^ David P. Dobkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
7. ^ Short vita from Dobkin's web site.
8. ^ ACM Fellow citation.

Additional reading

• Dobkin keeps pace with faculty interests, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, January 9, 2006

External links

• Dobkin's web site at the Princeton Computer Science department
• Dobkin's publications at DBLP

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