Ravi Janardan

Professor

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
4-192 Keller Hall
200 Union Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0159

Tel: (612) 625-7338
Fax: (612) 625-0572
Email: lastname@umn.edu

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

Education

Ph.D. (1987), M.S. (1985). Computer Science. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
M.Tech (1982). Computer Science. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
B.Tech (1980). Mechanical Engg. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Professional Experience

Professor (1998-present).
Associate Head (2000-2005).
Chair, Faculty Recruiting (1998-2005, 2019-2021).
Associate Professor (1993-98).
Assistant Professor (1987-93).

All at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Research

Geometric Computing and Applications

Broadly speaking, geometric computing is concerned with the design of efficient computational techniques for representing, reasoning with, and manipulating geometric entities. My research here encompasses algorithm and data structure design and analysis, software development, and deployment of solutions into applications. Application areas of current interest include computer-aided design and manufacture, biomedical simulation and modeling, geometric computing under uncertainty, and spatial query processing. To get a flavor for some of this, you can check out some of my work on layered manufacturing (a.k.a. 3D-printing) here.

Feel free to email me (lastname@umn.edu) if you would like more information or copies of my other papers, or are interested in collaborating on research.

Teaching

Jie Xue (Ph.D., graduated 2019). First employment: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara (post-doctoral associate).

Rahul Saladi (Ph.D., graduated 2017). First employment: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (post-doctoral associate).

Yuan Li (Ph.D., graduated 2017). First employment: Facebook, Seattle, WA.

Akash Agrawal (Ph.D., graduated 2016). First employment: Google, Mountain View, CA.
Yokesh Kumar (Ph.D., graduated 2012). First employment: Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
Jieping Ye (Ph.D., graduated 2005). First employment: Asst. Professor, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ.
Ivaylo Ilinkin (Ph.D., graduated 2003). First employment: Asst. Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.
Jayanth Majhi (Ph.D., graduated 1998). First employment: Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR.
Prosenjit Gupta (Ph.D., graduated 1995). First employment: AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ
Siu Wing Cheng (Ph.D., graduated 1992). First employment: Asst. Professor, Hong Kong U of Sci. and Tech., Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Several graduated M.S. students.

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