Chandrajit Bajaj
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| birth_place = India
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| citizenship = {{flagicon|USA}} USA
| field = Computer science
| work_institution = The University of Texas at Austin
| alma_mater = Cornell University
| doctoral_advisor = John Edward Hopcroft
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Chandrajit Bajaj (born 1958 in Calcutta, India) is an American computer scientist. He 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 (ICES).
Career
Dr. Bajaj studied Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and obtained his BTech degree in 1980. From there he went on to Cornell University, where he obtained his master's degree and PhD in Computer Science, in 1983 and 1984, respectively.{{cite web|title= Chandrajit Bajaj's Curriculum Vitae |url= http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bajaj/Bajaj-CV.pdf |accessdate= 7 July 2011}} He held a faculty position in computer science at Purdue University from 1984 to 1997,{{cite web |title= Purdue University Department of Computer Science Annual Report 1997 |url= http://www.cs.purdue.edu/about_us/annual_reports/97/faculty/bajaj.html |access-date= 25 June 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080908042930/http://www.cs.purdue.edu/about_us/annual_reports/97/faculty/bajaj.html |archive-date= 8 September 2008 |url-status= dead }} 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.{{cite web|title=Computational Visualization Center |url=https://www.ices.utexas.edu/research/centers-groups/cvc/ | publisher=The University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences | accessdate=24 July 2018}}
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.
Bajaj is a current editorial board member for the ACM Computing Surveys,[http://csur.acm.org/Editors.html Editorial Board] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223324/http://csur.acm.org/Editors.html |date=24 July 2011 }}, ACM Computing Surveys the International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications,[http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcga/mkt/editorial.shtml Editorial Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041210065308/http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcga/mkt/editorial.shtml |date=10 December 2004 }}, International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications and the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.[http://www.siam.org/journals/siims/board.php Editorial Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809070853/http://www.siam.org/journals/siims/board.php |date=9 August 2011 }}, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics.[http://portalparts.acm.org/1190000/1189762/fm/frontmatter.pdf Front Matter], ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26 Issue 1, January 2007 Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002[http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/socg2002.html Homepage] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044633/http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/socg2002.html |date=20 July 2011 }}, 2002 Symposium on Computational Geometry and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.[http://www.siam.org/meetings/gdspm11/ Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615184427/http://www.siam.org/meetings/gdspm11/ |date=15 June 2011 }}, 2011 SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling
Awards
Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009)[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=5216692&srt=year&year=2009 ACM Fellows], Chandrajit Bajaj and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (2008).[http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/ Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205185945/http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/ |date=5 December 2013 }}, American Association of the Advancement of Sciences His research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/news-events/news/2011/drug-design-receives-private-grand-challenge-research-funds |title=Drug Design Receives Private Grand Challenge Research Funds |access-date=7 July 2011 |archive-date=12 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712150943/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/news-events/news/2011/drug-design-receives-private-grand-challenge-research-funds |url-status=live }}
Several of his publications have been selected for best paper awards including Computer Aided Design[http://www.cadanda.com/Bestpapers.html Best Paper Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903102608/http://www.cadanda.com/Bestpapers.html |date=3 September 2011 }}, Computer-Aided Design and the 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling.[https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/spm2010/ Homepage], 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling
Selected publications
=Books=
- {{cite book|editor=C. Bajaj|title=Algebraic Geometry and its Applications|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1994|isbn=978-0-387-94176-9}}
- {{cite book|author1=J. Bloomenthal |author2=C. Bajaj |author3=J. Blinn |author4=M. Gascuel |author5=A. Rockwood |author6=B. Wyvill |author7=G. Wyvill |year=1997|title=Introduction to Implicit Surfaces|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.}}
- {{cite book|title=Data Visualization Techniques|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=1998|editor=C. Bajaj}}
- {{cite book|editor1=C. Christensen |editor2=G. Sunderam |editor3=A. Sathaye |editor4=C. Bajaj |title=Algebra, Arithmetic and Geometry with Applications|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=2004}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web | url = http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bajaj | title = Chandrajit Bajaj | publisher = Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin | accessdate = 7 July 2011}}
- {{cite web | url = http://cvcweb.ices.utexas.edu | title = Computational Visualization Center | publisher = Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin | accessdate = 7 July 2011}}
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:Indian computer scientists
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty
Category:Researchers in geometric algorithms
Category:2009 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery