Speaks and writes in: English, Spanish, and
French
Has largely forgotten:
Portuguese, Indonesian, and Flemish (mother tongue)
Positions:
Professor and Head of Computer Science: New York
University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, August
1, 2014-present.
Research Professor of Computer Science: New York
University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, August
1, 2011-July 31, 2014.
Research Affiliate: Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.,
October 2009-present.
Editor, Computational Geometry: Theory
and Applications
Editor, Forma
Associate Editor, International Journal of
Computational Geometry and Applications
Editorial Board, ISRN Geometry
Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematics
and the Arts
Editorial Board, Revista Investigacion
Operacional
Advisory Panel Analytical Approaches to
World Music Journal
Advisory Board, IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Main Past Professional
Positions:
Editor, Discrete and Computational
Geometry
Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Editorial Board Member, The Visual
Computer
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory
Conferences and Workshops
Founded and Organized:
Co-Founder
(with David Dobkin, Joseph O'Rourke and Franco Preparata), ACM Annual Symposium on Computational
Geometry. The first
symposium was held in Baltimore, 5-7, June 1985.
Co-Founder
(with David Avis), Annual Canadian
Conference on Computational Geometry. Organized
the first, tenth, and twentieth conferences
at McGill University in Montreal in August 1989, August
1998, and August 2007, respectively.
Founder, Organiser and
Co-Organizer (with Erik Demaine), Annual Bellairs Winter Workshop on
Computational Geometry. The first workshop was held
at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in
Barbados, February 1986.
Founder and
Co-Organizer (with Dmitri Tymoczko), Annual Bellairs Winter Workshop on
Mathematics and Music. The first workshop was held
at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in
Barbados, February 2009.
Co-Founder
(with Antonio Mesa) Cuban Workshop
on Algorithms and Data Structures, The first
workshop was held at Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, May 2001,
the second was held in the same place in April 2003,
and the third in April 2004.
Co-Founder
(with Francisco Gomez) International
Workshop on Computational Music Theory,
The first workshop was held at Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de
Informatica, Madrid, Spain, July 2003. The second, third
, and fourth were held at the same location in
June 2004, June 2005, and July 2006, respectively. The fifth was held at ESMUC,
Barcelona, July 16-20, 2007.
Honors
and Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Canadian Association for Computer Science
(CS-Can/Info-Can) for the year 2017. The Awards Ceremony took
place on May 7, 2018 at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Distinguished
Service Award for "outstanding contribution to
research and education in Computational Geometry," CIPPRS,
May 1996, Award ceremony at banquet of Vision Interface'96
in Toronto.
Vice-Chancellor's
Research Best-Practice Fellowship, October
1995, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1995.
Editorial Service
Award, Pattern Recognition Society, 1993.
ASI Fellowship
from the B.C. Advanced Systems Institute (1988).
OutstandingPaper
Certificate awarded by the Pattern
Recognition Society for the manuscript: Godfried
T. Toussaint, "The relative neighborhood graph of a
finite planar set," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 12, pp.
261-268.
Best-Paper-of-the-Year
Award
from the Pattern Recognition Society for
the manuscript: Godfried T. Toussaint, "The use of context in
pattern recognition," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 10,
pp. 189-204.
British Columbia
Telephone Company Graduate Scholarship, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Teaching Fellowship, Department
of Electrical Engineering, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, U.S.A.
Texaco Scholarship,
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, U.S.A.
M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, B. C. Thesis: Machine
Recognition of Independent and Contextually Constrained
Contour-Traced Handprinted Characters. Supervisor:
Professor Robert W.
Donaldson.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Tulsa,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Senior Thesis: Threshold Logic Network Synthesis.
Supervisor: Professor Harold Smith.