Christine Piatko

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Christine Diane Piatko is a computer scientist known for her heavily cited publications on k-means clustering, high-dynamic-range imaging, computer graphics, and document classification.

Piatko is a 1986 graduate of New York University. [1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Geometric Bicriteria Optimal Path Problems, was supervised by Joseph S. B. Mitchell. [2] She is an assistant research professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, and a research computer scientist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Christine Piatko, Johns Hopkins University, retrieved 2019-09-22CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. Christine Piatko at the Mathematics Genealogy Project