Chandrajit Bajaj is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
10 Facts About Chandrajit Bajaj
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Dr Bajaj studied Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and obtained his BTech degree in 1980.
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Chandrajit Bajaj held a faculty position in computer science at Purdue University 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.
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Chandrajit Bajaj's research has been in the fields of computational biology, geometric modeling, image processing, computational geometry, computer graphics, compression, mesh generation, scientific computation, and visualization.
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Chandrajit 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.
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Chandrajit Bajaj has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics.
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Chandrajit Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002 and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.
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Chandrajit Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences.
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Chandrajit Bajaj's research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011.
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Chandrajit Bajaj has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scholarly journals as well authoring or editing several books listed below.