Chandrajit Bajaj

Chandrajit Bajaj

Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization
Professor of Computer Science
Director of Center for Computational Visualization

Department of Computer Science &
The Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences,
Center for Computational Visualization 201 East 24th Street, POB 2.324A,
1 University Station, C0200
Austin, TX 78712-0027

My research publications are available here, my books here, and my CV.
Click here for my Google Scholar Citations

Office Phone	: +1 512-471-8870
FAX	: +1 512-471-8694
EMAIL	: bajaj@cs.utexas.edu
Admin. Assoc.	: Laura Lansing (laural@oden.utexas.edu)

Education

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering(1980)
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences (1983, 1984)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Professional Experience

Computational Applied Mathematics Chair of Visualization, University of Texas 1997-
Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas 1997-
Director of Center for Computational Visualization, University of Texas 1997-
Director of Image Analysis and Visualization Center, Purdue University 1996-97
Professor of Computer Sciences, Purdue University 1993-97
Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Purdue University 1989-93
Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Cornell University 1990-91
Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences, Purdue University 1984-89

Honors, Awards & Membership in Professional Societies

National Science Talent Scholarship, 1975. Dean's Honor Roll, IIT Delhi, 1975-1980, Scholastic Merit Award, (B. Tech. DGPA of 10.00/10.00)
Frame Technology Excellence in Publishing Award, 1993
Purdue University, Provost's Research Center Initiation Award, 1994
Association of Computing Machinery, Student Chapter, Appreciation Certificate 2001, Recognition of Service Award, 2002
University of Texas, Faculty Research Assignment Award 2004, Dean Research Assignment Award 2004
Selected Keynote Addresses at SIAM Computational Science (2000), Pacific Computer Graphics (2002), Volume Graphics (2003), EuroGraphics (2004), CyberWorlds (2005), Jacques Morgenstern Lecture, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, (2006), U. of Stuttgart, (2006), Fraunhofer Institute & U of Darmstadt (2006), Institute of Mathematics and Applications (2006, 2007), UTCS Visons of Computing Lecture Series (2011), William Mong Distinguished Colloquium, Hong Kong University, (2012),
Best Paper Awards at Computer Aided Design Conference (2006) and ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (2010).
Papers Committee Chairman International Symposium on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation (2000), Symposium on Computational Geometry (2002), SIAM/ACM Geometric and Physical Modeling Conference, (2011)
Elected Member of Sigma Xi and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Societies
Member of the NSF-CISE Board of Visitors, (2004), ETH Zurich Evaluation Committee (2004), INRIA Evaluation Committee (2007), KAUST Center Director Search Chair (2008), Consolider Scientific Committee of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (2008,2009), Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) (2005- ).
Chairperson, and member of the NIH "Molecular Structure and Function D" study section, 2011 - 2013
Member of the NIH-NCRR National Biomedical Computation Resource Advisory Committee, 2006 -
Member of the National Academy of Sciences -Vietnam Education Foundation, 2006, 2007.
ICES-Sid Moncreif Grand Challenge Faculty Research Award, 2009, 2011, 2016-2107
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008-
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2009-
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE), 2013-
Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematioso(SIAM), 2016-
Distinguished Alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, (IITD), India, 2016.

Editorships

ACM Computing Surveys
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences