David Mount
David Mount
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and UMIACS at the University of Maryland
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

Address:
Department of Computer Science
8125 Paint Branch Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Office: 4162 Brendan Iribe Center of CS and Engineering
Phone: (301) 405-2704; Fax: (301) 405-6707
Email: mount@umd.edu
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 Research

I am a member of the Algorithms and Theory Group at the University of Maryland. I do research on the design, analysis, and implementation of data structures and algorithms for geometric problems, particularly problems with applications in areas such as image processing, pattern recognition, information retrieval, and computer graphics.
My Publications Biographical Sketch Vita

 Software Projects

- ANN: A library for approximate nearest neighbor searching.
- ALTS: An Adaptive Algorithm for the LTS Linear Estimator.
- KMeans: Efficient algorithms for k-means clustering.
- ISODATA: Efficient implementation of the ISODATA/ISOCLUS clustering algorithm.

 Education

- Ph.D. (1983), Computer Science, Purdue University
- B.S. (1977), Computer Science, Purdue University

 Teaching

This semester (Spring 2024) I am on leave at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Here are links to some course resources and lecture notes:

- CMSC 420: Advanced Data Structures, Spring 2023.
- CMSC 754: Computational Geometry, Fall 2023.
- CMSC 425: Game Programming, Fall 2018. (Check out these cool videos from the class final projects.)
- CMSC 451: Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, Fall 2017.
- Independent Study Projects that I have supervised.
- Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ (2nd Edition): A textbook I wrote with Mike Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, published by Wiley.

 Recent Professional Service

Committees: Computational Geometry Steering Committee Member (2016-2018)
Editorial Boards:
TheoretiCS Editorial Board Member (2021 - present)
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications (CGTA) Editorial Board Member (2012 - present)
Internat. J. of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA) Editorial Board Member (2008 - present)
ACM Trans. on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (ACM TSAS) Senior Associate Editor (2013 - 2020)
ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS) Editorial Board Member (2006 - 2018)
Pattern Recognition Editorial Board Member (1999 - 2006)
Conferences:
SoCG 2024 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (Program committee).
WADS 2023 18th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, 2023 (Program committee).
FOCS 2022 63rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2022 (Program committee).
ESA 2022 30th European Symposium on Algorithms (Track-B), 2022 (Program committee).
SODA 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2021 (Program committee).
SISAP 2019 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (Program committee).
SoCG 2018 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (Program committee).
WALCOM 2017 11th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (Program committee).
Proximity 2015 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Proximity Problems (Co-organizer).
SISAP 2015 8th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (Program committee).
SODA 2014 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2014 (Program committee).
WALCOM 2013 7th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, 2013 (Program committee).
FWCG 2012 22nd Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (Workshop chair).
SIBGRAPI 2011 Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 2011 (Program committee).
SoCG 2011 27th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2011 (Program committee).
ALENEX'11 Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, 2011 (Program committee).
ISAAC 2010 The 21st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, 2010 (Program committee).
STOC 2009 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2009 (Conference Co-Chair).
SoCG 2008 24th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2008 (Conference Chair).
COCOON'06 12th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, 2006 (Program committee).
SPIE EI'06 Vision Geometry XIV at SPIE's Electronic Imaging, 2006 (Program co-chair).
SoCG 2003 ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2003 (Program co-chair).
ALENEX'02 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, 2002 (Program co-chair).
ESA'02 10th European Symposium on Algorithms, 2002 (Program committee).

Last updated Jan 2024.

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