Biographical Sketch

David Mount is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment in the University's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Computer Science in 1983, and started at the University of Maryland in 1984. In 2001 he was a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He has written over 100 research publications on algorithms for geometric problems, particularly problems with applications in image processing, pattern recognition, information retrieval, and computer graphics. He currently serves as an associate editor for the journal ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software and served on the editorial board of Pattern Recognition from 1999 to 2006. He served as a guest editor for Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications. He has served on the program committees of many of the major conferences in his area, and he served as the program committee co-chair for the 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2003 and the Fourth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments in 2002 and SPIE's Conferences on Vision Geometry from 2001 through 2006.

He has won a number of awards for excellence in teaching, including twice winning the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Award for Teaching Excellence Appreciation in 2001 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has co-authored the textbook Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ with Mike Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia and published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2004.

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Last updated September 2007.