Dey named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Computer Science and Engineering Professor Tamal Dey a 2018 Fellow. He has been recognized for contributions to advancing computational geometry and topology with applications to shape and data analysis. He was 1 of 56 members named as ACM Fellows for 2018.
Dey received his PhD from Purdue University in Computer Science. Before joining The Ohio State University, he held faculty positions at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and research scientist positions at the University of Illinois and Max Planck Institute. He has authored several highly cited papers and two books. In 2017 he was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).
In 2017 and 2018, he led a team of Ohio State researchers in receiving Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) project funding from the National Science Foundation.
ACM will formally recognize its 2018 Fellows at the annual Awards Banquet, to be held in San Francisco on June 15, 2019.