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Professor

snoeyink@cs.unc.edu | Jack Snoeyink‘s Website

Research Areas:

Computational geometry; algorithms for geographical information systems and structural biology; geometric modeling and computation; algorithms and data structures; theory of computation


Jack Snoeyink is a professor with joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Data Science and Society. He works on computational geometry, a branch of computer science theory that designs and analyzes algorithms and data structures for problems best stated in geometry form. His main application areas are terrain modeling in geographic information systems, molecular structure validation and biochemistry improvement, computational topology, computer graphics, and information visualization. In 2015-2018, Snoeyink rotated as a program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation, Computer and Information Science & Engineering (CISE), in the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) division. He was one of the four program directors who helped create the Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program, establishing centers to explore the application of math, statistics, and computer science in foundations and applications in data science.