David P. Dobkin

David Paul Dobkin is an American computer scientist and the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.[1]

David Dobkin
BornFebruary 29, 1948
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materMIT
Harvard University
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsYale University
University of Arizona
Princeton University
ThesisOn the arithmetic complexity of a class of arithmetic computations (1973)
Doctoral advisorRoger W. Brockett
Doctoral students

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

He taught at Yale University and the University of Arizona before moving to Princeton in 1981.[2] He was initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton and was subsequently named one of the first professors of Computer Science 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]

Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.[6] 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.[7]

References
  1. "David Dobkin | Computer Science Department at Princeton University". www.cs.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  2. "Biography".CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. "David Dobkin named dean of faculty". E-quad news. Princeton University. Summer 2003. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2008-02-25.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)"COS professor appointed new dean of the faculty". Daily Princetonian. April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on 2006-10-22.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. "Princeton's Computer Science Chair Appointed First Goldman Professor". Princeton University. January 14, 1999.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)"Three to hold endowed chairs". E-quad news. Princeton University. Winter 1998–1999. Archived from the original on 2007-06-10. Retrieved 2008-02-25.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  5. "Post-mortem on the Geometry Center". Math in the Media (AMS).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. "Short vita". from Dobkin's web siteCS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. "ACM Fellow citation".CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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