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Professor Guibas heads the Geometric Computation group in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and is a member of the Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories. He works on algorithms for sensing, modeling, reasoning, rendering, and acting in the physical world. Guibas's research interests span computational geometry, geometric modeling, computer graphics, computer vision, sensor networks, robotics, and discrete algorithms, with extensive publications and lectures in these areas. Current focal points include geometric modeling of point cloud data, deformations and contacts, organizing and searching libraries of 3D shapes and images, and using sensor networks for lightweight distributed estimation and reasoning. His theoretical work investigates fundamental computational issues and the limits of geometric computing and modeling.
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