David Avis

David Avis

David Avis in 1987
Born (1951-03-20) March 20, 1951
Nationality Canadian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions McGill University, Kyoto University
Alma mater Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Václav Chvátal
Doctoral students David Rappaport
Jean-Marc Robert
Thomas Shermer
Rephael Wenger

David Michael Avis (born March 20, 1951) is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations. Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal. Since 2010, he belongs to Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

Avis received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Stanford University.[1] He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles. Writing with Komei Fukuda, Avis proposed a reverse-search algorithm for the vertex enumeration problem; their algorithm generates all of the vertices of a convex polytope.[AF92][AF96]

Selected publications

AF92. Avis, David; Fukuda, Komei (December 1992). "A pivoting algorithm for convex hulls and vertex enumeration of arrangements and polyhedra". Discrete and Computational Geometry. 8 (1): 295–313. MR 1174359. doi:10.1007/BF02293050. 
AF96. Avis, David; Fukuda, Komei (1996). "Reverse Search for Enumeration". Discrete Applied Mathematics. 6: 21–46. 

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