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Roberto Tamassia is the Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and the Director of Brown's Center for Geometric Computing. He is renowned for his research in information security, cryptography, algorithm design and analysis, graph drawing, and computational geometry. An IEEE Fellow, he has published six textbooks and over 250 research articles, and has been invited to present more than 70 lectures worldwide. Tamassia has made significant contributions to the fields of algorithm analysis and design, particularly in computational geometry and graph algorithms. His pioneering work in graph drawing produced fundamental algorithms and visualization methods that are widely cited. He developed effective techniques for the dynamization of geometric data structures and has engaged extensively in computer science education, creating innovative strategies for teaching data structures and algorithms. Tamassia's research has been funded by various organizations including ARO, DARPA, NATO, NSF, and other industrial sponsors. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Department: Department of Economics