Dan Halperin

{{Short description|Israeli computer scientist}}

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| name = Dan Halperin

| native_name = דן הלפרין

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| alma_mater = Tel Aviv University, Stanford University

| thesis_title = Algorithmic Motion Planning via Arrangements of Curves and of Surfaces

| doctoral_advisor = Micha Sharir

| field = Computer Science, Computational Geometry, Robotics

| website = {{URL|https://www.cgl.cs.tau.ac.il/people/dan-halperin/}}

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Dan (Danny) Halperin ({{Langx|he|דן הלפרין}}) is an Israeli computer scientist known for his work on computational geometry and robotics. He is currently a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and the CTO of [https://assembrix.com Assembrix], a startup company in industrial 3D printing.

Halperin completed his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University in 1992, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.{{r|mg}} His dissertation was Algorithmic Motion Planning via Arrangements of Curves and of Surfaces.{{r|thesis}} He then spent three years as a research associate in the Computer Science Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University. He returned to Tel Aviv University as a faculty member in 1996{{r|x}}, where he established the [https://www.cgl.cs.tau.ac.il Computational Geometry Lab].

Halperin's main field of research is computational geometry and its applications, which include robotics, automated manufacturing, algorithmic motion planning for individual robots and multi-robot teams, assembly planning, and 3D printing. A major focus of his work has been in research and development of robust geometric software, in collaboration with a group of European universities and research institutes: the CGAL project and library, which has earned the SoCG "test of time" award.{{r|tot}} In CGAL he has been particularly active in the development of the 2D arrangements package, of which he has written a book.{{r|book}}

Halperin was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2015, "for contributions to robust geometric algorithms for robotics and automation",{{r|if}} and is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.{{r|dl}} He was named as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2018, "for contributions to robust geometric computing and applications to robotics and automation".{{r|af}} He was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG), and the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR). {{r|keynote}}