David Dobkin is a faculty member in the department of Computer Science at Princeton University and is currently Dean of the Faculty. He received B.S. degrees from MIT in 1970, an M.S. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1973 from Harvard University. He taught at Yale University and the University of Arizona before joining Princeton University’s Computer Science Department in 1981. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988-1989.

Professor Dobkin’s work focuses on the interface between computational geometry and computer graphics. His interests include the development of theoretical models and algorithms for problems of computer graphics and other fields which are geometric in nature. He is also involved in the implementation of geometric algorithms and the development of tools to make the development and animation of such algorithms easier.

Professor Dobkin is on the editorial boards of numerous journals including: ACM Transactions on Graphics, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Algorithmica, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Discrete and Computational Geometry, IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, International Journal of Computational Geometry, and International Journal of Parallel Programming. He has also been a consultant or visitor at various research labs including Bellcore, Bell Labs, ATT Research XEROX PARC, and DEC SRC and is involved with the NSF Science and Technology Centers, DIMACS where he was a member of the Executive Council and the Geometry Center where he chaired the Board of Governors.