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For the mathematician known for work in low-dimensional topology and automatic groups, see D.B.A. Epstein
David Eppstein
BornEngland
NationalityUS citizen
Alma materStanford University, Columbia University
Known forHe is best known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics
AwardsNSF Young Investigator award, 1992 – 1999; NSF graduate fellowship, 1984 – 1987; National Merit scholarship, 1981 – 1984.
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer scientist
InstitutionsComputer Science Department, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Doctoral advisorZvi Galil

David Eppstein (born 1963) is a computer scientist at the Computer Science Department, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. He is best known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics. He has a slender publication history.

Biography

Born in England, but now a US citizen, Eppstein received a B.S. in Mathematics with distinction from Stanford University in 1984, and later an M.S. (May 1985) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University (May 1989), after which he took a postdoctorate at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1990, and was co-chair of the Computer Science Department there from 2002 to 2005.

Research interests

Eppstein's research is focused mostly in finite element meshing, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, dynamic graph data structures, graph colouring, graph drawing, computational robust statistics, and geometric optimisation.

Selected publications

  • D. Eppstein, Finding the k shortest paths, SIAM J. Comput. 28 (1999), no. 2, 652--673
  • D. Eppstein, Z Galil, GF Italiano, A Nissenzweig, Sparsification—a technique for speeding up dynamic graph algorithms, J. ACM 44 (1997), no. 5, 669--696.
  • N. Amenta, M. Bern, D. Eppstein, The Crust and the beta-Skeleton: Combinatorial Curve Reconstruction Graphical Models and Image Processing, 1998
  • M. Bern and D. Eppstein, Mesh generation and optimal triangulation, Tech. Rep. CSL-92-1, Xerox PARC, 1992. Computing in Euclidean Geometry, D.-Z. Du and F.K. Hwang, eds., World Scientific, 1992, pp. 23-90.

Awards and honours

Eppstein received the NSF Young Investigator award (1992 – 1999), and has been accepted to the NSF graduate fellowship (1984 – 1987) and the National Merit scholarship (1981 – 1984).

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