Leonidas Guibas
Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science; Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Leonidas Guibas is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science (and by courtesy, Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, where he heads the Geometric Computation group. Dr. Guibas obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University under the supervision of Donald Knuth. His main subsequent employers were Xerox PARC, DEC/SRC, MIT, and Stanford. He is a member and past acting director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a member of the Computer Graphics Laboratory, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (iCME), and the Bio-X program. Dr. Guibas has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and winner of the ACM Allen Newell Award and the ICCV Helmholtz prize. He is also a recent recipient of a DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship and a Technical University of Munich Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship.