Dr. Leonidas Guibas

Biography

Leonidas Guibas is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, where he heads the Geometric Computation group. He is a member of the Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories. His research focuses on algorithms for sensing, modeling, reasoning, rendering, and acting in the physical world. Guibas has extensive publications and lectures in computational geometry, geometric modeling, computer graphics, computer vision, sensor networks, robotics, and discrete algorithms. His current research interests include geometric modeling of point cloud data, deformation and contact modeling, organizing and searching libraries of 3D shapes and images, sensor networks for lightweight distributed estimation and reasoning, analyzing GPS traces for mobility data, and modeling shape motion of biological macromolecules and structures. His theoretical work addresses fundamental issues related to limits in geometric computing and modeling. Guibas earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1976 and holds both an MS and a BS from the California Institute of Technology, awarded in 1971.

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