| pankaj at cs.duke.edu | |
| Office | D315A LSRC |
| Phone | (919) 660-6548 |
| Fax | (919) 660-6502 |
| Web page | http://www.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj |
Education
Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 1989M.S., University of California-Santa Barbara, 1986
B.E., University of Roorkee, 1982
Honors & Awards
ACM Fellow, 2002; Bass Society of Fellows, 2000; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1996; National Young Investigator, 1993.Research
Computational and combinatorial geometry, computational biology, robotics, spatial databases, geographic molecular information systems, and data structures.Selected Publications
- "Extreme elevation on a 2-manifold,” with H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer, and Y. Wang, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 36 (2006), 553–572.
- “Scalable continuous query processing by tracking hotspots,” with J. Xie, J. Yang, and H. Yu, in , Annual IEEE International Conference on Very Large Databases 2006.
- “Computing the volume of the union of cubes,”with H. Kaplan and M. Sharir, in Twenty Third Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2007.
- “TerraStream: From elevation data to watershed hierarchies,” with A. Danner, K. Yi, T. Mølhave, L. Arge, H. Mitasova, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2007.
- “A geometric approach for untangling a mesh using local surgery,” with B. Sadri, and H. Yu, in Proc. Twenty Fourth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2008.
Extended List of Publications
Publications by Pankaj K. Agarwal