Research Areas:
Computational Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Sensor Networks, Robotics, and Discrete Algorithms

Prof. Guibas received his BS and MS from the California Institute of Technology in 1971 and obtained his PhD in Stanford University in 1976. He joined Stanford as Professor of Computer Science in 1984. Prof. Guibas is currently the Paul Pigott Porfessor of Computer Science and Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering. He heads the Geometric Computation group in the Computer Science Department and is a member of the Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories.

Prof. Guibas works on algorithms for sensing, modeling, reasoning, rendering, and acting on the physical world. His current foci of interest include geometric modeling with point cloud data, deformations and contacts, organizing and searching libraries of 3D shapes and images, sensor networks for lightweight distributed estimation / reasoning, analysis of GPS traces and other mobility data, and modeling the shape and motion biological macromolecules and other biological structures.

Prof. Guibas is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was awarded the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2007 for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines.