Subhash Suri

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Subhash Suri (born July 7, 1960) [1] is an Indian-American computer scientist, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for his research in computational geometry, computer networks, and algorithmic game theory.

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Biography

Suri did his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, graduating in 1981. He then worked as a programmer in India before beginning his graduate studies in 1984 at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1987 under the supervision of Joseph O'Rourke. He was a member of the technical staff at Bellcore until 1994, when he returned to academia as an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He moved to a full professorship at UCSB in 2000. [1]

He was program committee chair for the 7th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation in 1996, [1] and program committee co-chair for the 18th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002. [2]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Suri was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 2009, [3] of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2010, [4] and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae Archived 2005-05-04 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2012-03-12.
  2. Program Committees from the Symposium on Computational Geometry, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, retrieved 2012-03-12.
  3. IEEE Fellow: Subhash Suri Archived 2010-06-18 at the Wayback Machine , UCSB CS Department, retrieved 2012-03-12.
  4. ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2012-03-12.
  5. Eight Distinguished UCSB Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows, UCSB, retrieved 2012-03-12.