Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D. 1980 (computer science), Yale; B.S. 1975 (mathematics and computer science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Personal Homepage: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/yap/

Research Interests:

Numerical robustness, computational geometry, computer algebra, visualization, algorithmic robotics, complexity theory.

Fellowships/Honors:

Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award, 1990; second prize, Fulbright Fellowship, 1988; Phi Beta Kappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975; ACM George Forsythe Award, 1975.

Selected Works:

Towards Exact Geometric Computation. Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 7. 1997. 3-23.

Precision-Sensitive Euclidean Shortest Path in 3-Space, with J. Choi and J. Sellen. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry. 1995. 350-59.

New Upper Bounds in Klee's Measure Problem, with Mark Overmars. SIAM Journal on Computing, 20, no 6. 1991. 1034-45.

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