Interests
Combinatorial and Computational Geometry.
Biography
Ph.D., Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1994), and Doctorate, Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania (1985(94)). Professor Streinu joined the faculty at Smith College in 1994 and became Adjunct Professor at UMass Amherst Computer Science in 2002.
Research
Professor Streinu's research interests include:
- Combinatorial and Computational Geometry:
- Geometric Algorithms (visibility, motion planning)
- Rigidity Theory,
- Oriented Matroids and Pseudolines
- Graph Theory, Robust Computation
- Complexity of Geometric Algorithms
- with Applications in:
- Computational Molecular Biology (Protein Structure and Folding Processes)
- Computer Graphics
- Robotics
- Graph Drawing
- Computational Statistics and Data Visualization
- Software development for:
- Protein Folding simulation
- Data Visualization
- Graph Drawing
Awards & Activities
Professor Streinu was Program committee member for the 14th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, MIT, Nov. 19-20, 2004. She was the Co-organizer (with Jack Snoeyink) of Geometry of Protein Modelling , a Special Session at the American Math. Society Regional Meeting 997, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004, and was the organizer of the Workshop on the Geometry of Modelling Proteins at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill Univ. in Barbados, Jan. 16-23, 2004. In a 2006 ceremony marking its 140th anniversary, the Romanian Academy awarded Streinu the George Moisil Award, their highest recognition in the area of Theoretical Computer Science, for a paper published in 2004.
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