Chandrajit Bajaj

Chandrajit Bajaj (born 1958 in Calcutta, India) is an American computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer science at the University of Texas at Austin holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).

Chandrajit Bajaj
Born1958 (age 62–63)
India
Citizenship USA
Alma materCornell University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsThe University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisorJohn Edward Hopcroft
Doctoral students

Career

Dr. Bajaj studied Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and obtained his BTech degree in 1980.[1] From there he went on to Cornell University, where he obtained his Masters and PhD in Computer Science, in 1983 and 1984, respectively.[1] He held a faculty position in computer science at Purdue University from 1984–1997,[2] a visiting assistant professorship in Computer Sciences at Cornell University from 1990–1991,[1] and was the Director of the Image Analysis and Visualization Center at Purdue University from 1996–1997.[1] Since 1997, he has been a professor of Computer Sciences, the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair of Visualization, and the director of the Computational Visualization Center at The University of Texas at Austin.[1][3]

Bajaj's research has been in the fields of computational biology, geometric modeling, image processing, computational geometry, computer graphics, compression, mesh generation, scientific computation, and visualization.

Bajaj is a current Editorial Board member for the ACM Computing Surveys,[4] the International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications,[5] and the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.[6] He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics.[7] Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002[8] and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.[9]

Awards

Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009)[10] and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (2008).[11] His research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011.[12] Several of his publications have been selected for best paper awards including Computer Aided Design[13] and the 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling.[14]

Selected publications

Bajaj has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scholarly journals[1] as well authoring or editing several books listed below.

Books
  • C. Bajaj, ed. (1994). Algebraic Geometry and its Applications. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-94176-9.
  • J. Bloomenthal; C. Bajaj; J. Blinn; M. Gascuel; A. Rockwood; B. Wyvill; G. Wyvill (1997). Introduction to Implicit Surfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.
  • C. Bajaj, ed. (1998). Data Visualization Techniques. John Wiley and Sons.
  • C. Christensen; G. Sunderam; A. Sathaye; C. Bajaj, eds. (2004). Algebra, Arithmetic and Geometry with Applications. Springer-Verlag.

References
  1. "Chandrajit Bajaj's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  2. "Purdue University Department of Computer Science Annual Report 1997". Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  3. "Computational Visualization Center". The University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. Editorial Board Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, ACM Computing Surveys
  5. Editorial Board, International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications
  6. Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
  7. Front Matter, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26 Issue 1, January 2007
  8. Homepage Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, 2002 Symposium on Computational Geometry
  9. Homepage, 2011 SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling
  10. ACM Fellows, Chandrajit Bajaj
  11. Fellows, American Association of the Advancement of Sciences
  12. Drug Design Receives Private Grand Challenge Research Funds
  13. Best Paper Awards Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Computer-Aided Design
  14. Homepage, 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling
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