Chandrajit Bajaj (born 1958 in Calcutta, India) is an American

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. He is a professor of

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at the

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holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the

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(ICES).

Career

Dr. Bajaj studied Computer Science at the

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and obtained his BTech degree in 1980. From there he went on to

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

, where he obtained his master's degree and PhD in Computer Science, in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He held a faculty position in computer science at

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from 1984 to 1997, a visiting assistant professorship in Computer Sciences at Cornell University from 1990 to 1991, and was the Director of the Image Analysis and Visualization Center at Purdue University from 1996 to 1997. Since 1997, he has been a professor of Computer Sciences, the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair of Visualization, and the director of the Computational Visualization Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Bajaj's research has been in the fields of

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, image processing, computational geometry,

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, compression,

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, and

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. Bajaj is a current editorial board member for the ''ACM Computing Surveys'', the ''International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications'', and the ''SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences''. He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics. Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM

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in 2002 and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.

Awards

Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the

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(2009) and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (2008). His research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011. Several of his publications have been selected for best paper awards including Computer Aided Design and the 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling.Homepage
2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling

Selected publications

Bajaj has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scholarly journals as well authoring or editing several books listed below.

Books

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bajaj, Chandrajit American computer scientists Indian computer scientists Cornell University alumni IIT Delhi alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Researchers in geometric algorithms Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1958 births Living people