David P. Dobkin

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David Paul Dobkin is the Dean of the Faculty and Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.[1]

Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After receiving a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, he moved to Harvard University for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett. After teaching at Yale University and the University of Arizona he moved to Princeton in 1981.[2] Initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he was one of the first professors of Computer Science at Princeton when that department was formed in 1985.[3] In 1999, he became the first holder of the Goldman chair after its namesake donated two million dollars to the university.[4] He was chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton from 1994 to 2003, and in 2003 was appointed Dean of the Faculty.[3]

Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.[5] His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics, and in 1997 he was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to both fields.[6]

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  1. ^ Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Princeton Univ.
  2. ^ Biography from Dobkin's web site.
  3. ^ a b David Dobkin named dean of faculty, E-quad news, Princeton University, Summer 2003.; COS professor appointed new dean of the faculty, Daily Princetonian, April 14, 2003.
  4. ^ Princeton's Computer Science Chair Appointed First Goldman Professor, Princeton University, January 14, 1999; Three to hold endowed chairs, E-quad news, Princeton University, Winter 1998–1999.
  5. ^ Short vita from Dobkin's web site.
  6. ^ ACM Fellow citation.

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