Dan Halperin @ Tel Aviv University

Dan Halperin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Tel Aviv University in 1992. He then spent three years at
the Computer Science Robotics Laboratory at Stanford
University. In 1996 he joined the Department of Computer
Science at Tel Aviv University, where he is currently a
full professor and for two years until September 2006 was
the department chair. Halperin's main field of research is
Computational Geometry. Much of his work concerns
``geometric arrangements'' which are fundamental constructs
underlying the algorithmic solution of geometric problems
in a wide variety of domains. Application areas he is
currently interested in include robotics and automated
manufacturing, algorithmic motion planning, and structural
bioinformatics. He is co-founder of the international
workshop series ``Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics.''
Halperin was the program-committee chair of the applied
track of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in
2001, and the program-committee chair of the engineering
track of the European Symposium on Algorithm in 2008. A
major focus of Halperin's current work is in research and
development of robust geometric software, in collaboration
with a large group of European universities and research
institutes (the CGAL project and library).