Biography:Otfried Cheong

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Short description: German-Korean computer scientist

Otfried Cheong (Korean오트프리드 정; formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars)[1] and as the developer of Ipe, a vector graphics editor.[2]

Cheong completed his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Alt.[3] He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions at Utrecht University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Eindhoven University of Technology.[4] Cheong was co-chair of the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2006, with Nina Amenta.[5] In 2017 he was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Scientist.[6]

References

  1. Reviews of Computational Geometry:
  2. Hlavacek, Jan (2006), "Ipe — a graphics editor with LaTeX integration", The PracTeX Journal (2), https://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-2/hlavacek/hlavacek.pdf 
  3. Otfried Cheong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Faculty profile at KAIST, retrieved 2017-02-20.
  5. Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Computational geometry, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2015-06-29.
  6. "ACM Recognizes 45 Distinguished Members", Communications of the ACM 60 (2): 20, February 2017 .