Biography:Dianna Xu
Yilun Dianna Xu is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns the computational geometry of curves and surfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics. She is a professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College where she chairs the computer science department.[1]
Education and career
Xu graduated from Smith College in 1996, with a bachelor's degree in computer science.[1] She credits going to a women's college with the nurturing environment that allowed her to become interested in computer science.[2]
She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation, Incremental Algorithms for the Design of Triangular-Based Spline Surfaces, was supervised by Jean Gallier.[3] After staying at Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher, she joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 2004.[1]
Books
With Ira Greenberg and Deepak Kumar, Xu is the author of Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 (Springer, 2013), a tutorial introduction to Processing, an open-source graphical library and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities. With Jean Gallier, she is the author of A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces (Springer, 2013).[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Curriculum vitae, Computer Science Department, Bryn Mawr College, https://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dxu/cv-short.pdf
- ↑ Chinn, Hannah (October 5, 2017), At Bryn Mawr, a Record Number of Students Choose to Major in Computer Science, Bryn Mawr College, https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/bryn-mawr-record-number-students-choose-major-computer-science
- ↑ Xu, Dianna (2002), Incremental Algorithms for the Design of Triangular-Based Spline Surfaces, University of Pennsylvania, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/Dianna-thesis.pdf, retrieved 2018-09-16
- ↑ Reviews of A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces:
- Kleinert, Werner, "none", zbMATH
- Löh, Clara, "none", Mathematical Reviews 9
- Feldman, D. V. (August 2013), "Review", Choice (American Library Association) 51 (1): 51–0331, doi:10.5860/choice.51-0331, https://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dxu/classif-review.pdf
- Wood, Bill (March 2014), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/a-guide-to-the-classification-theorem-for-compact-surfaces
- Castrillon Lopez, Marco (January 2018), Review, European Mathematical Society, http://euro-math-soc.eu/review/guide-classification-theorem-compact-surfaces
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