Roberto Tamassia
Roberto Tamassia is an American-Italian computer scientist, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and served as the chair of the Brown Computer Science department from 2007 to 2014.[1] His research specialty is in the design and analysis of algorithms for graph drawing, computational geometry, and computer security. He is also the author of several textbooks.
Professional biography
[edit]Tamassia received a laurea (the Italian equivalent of an M.S. degree) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1988.[1][2] He then took a faculty position at Brown; he has also held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and La Sapienza.[1]
Tamassia is an ISI highly cited researcher.[3] He was one of the original organizers of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, and was co-chair of that conference in 1994; he has also been co-chair of the semiannual Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (1997, 1999, and 2001) and the annual Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (2005). He is founding editor-in-chief (since 1996) of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications[4] as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.
Awards and honors
[edit]In 2006, the IEEE Computer Society gave Tamassia their Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms."[1][5] In 2008, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow.[1][6][7] In 2012 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education",[8] and also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Tamassia was married to Isabel Cruz, also a noted computer scientist, until her death in 2021.[10]
Books
[edit]- Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R. (1998), Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, Wiley. Fourth edition, 2005.
- Di Battista, G.; Eades, P.; Tamassia, R.; Tollis, I. G. (1999), Graph Drawing, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-301615-4.
- Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R. (2002), Algorithm Design, Wiley.
- Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R.; Mount, D. (2003), Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, Wiley
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae from Tamassia's web site, retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ TCS Genealogy, ACM SIGACT.
- ^ Profs. Preparata and Tamassia Among Most Highly Cited Computer Scientists, Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., February 19, 2007.
- ^ Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications web site.
- ^ Ward, Bob (2008), "Computer Society Connection", IEEE Computer, 41 (2): 82–87, doi:10.1109/MC.2008.45.
- ^ Roberto Tamassia Named IEEE Fellow, Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., December 12, 2008.
- ^ "Introducing the new class of fellows", The Institute, March 2009, archived from the original on June 4, 2011.
- ^ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Advance Technologies in Information Age Archived 2012-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, December 11, 2012.
- ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows", Science, 338 (6111): 1168–1171, November 30, 2012, doi:10.1126/science.338.6111.1166.
- ^ Tamassia, Roberto, Isabel Cruz, retrieved 2023-05-25
External links
[edit]- Tamassia's home page at Brown.
- Roberto Tamassia publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Italian computer scientists
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
- Brown University faculty
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Graph drawing people
- Computer security academics
- Fellows of the IEEE
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 20th-century Italian scientists
- 21st-century Italian scientists
- 20th-century American scientists
- 21st-century American scientists
- National Research Council (Italy) people