Danny Ziyi Chen

Professor (Ph. D., Purdue University, 1992)

Dr. Danny Ziyi Chen received the B.S. degrees in Computer Science and in Mathematics from the University of San Francisco, California, in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana since 1992, and is currently a Professor.

Dr. Chen's main research interests are in the areas of algorithm design, analysis, and implementation, computational geometry, parallel and distributed computing, computational medicine, data mining, robotics, and VLSI design. Dr. Chen has developed many efficient sequential and parallel algorithms for solving geometric, graph-theoretical, and combinatorial problems, and has published over 190 journal and conference papers in these areas. He has given invited talks on his research work at conferences, research institutes, and computer science departments in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He served on program committees of a number of international conferences. He was invited to conduct research at the Leonardo Fibonacci Institute, Trento, Italy in the summer of 1992, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrucken, Germany in the summer of 1994, and the Center for Applied Science and Engineering and Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan in the summer of 1996. He was a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong in 2003. He served on review panels of research proposals for the Numeric, Symbolic, and Geometric Computation (NSG) Program and the Theory of Computing (TOC) Program in the Division of Computer and Computation Research (CCR), the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Chen received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award of the National Science Foundation in 1996. He received the Kaneb Teaching Award of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 2004.

Dr. Chen is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Research Projects:
           Computational Geometry Algorithms for Medical Problems in Radiation Therapy and Medical Imaging, supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF)
           National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH

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