Emo Welzl

Biography

Welzl was born on 4 August 1958 in Linz, Austria. He studied at the Graz University of Technology receiving a Diplom in Applied Mathematics in 1981 and a doctorate in 1983 under the supervision of Hermann Maurer. Following postdoctoral studies at Leiden University, he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1987 at age 28 and was the youngest professor in Germany. Since 1996 he has been professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich.

Welzl is a member of multiple journal editorial boards, and has been program chair for the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1995, one of the tracks of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming in 2000, and one of the tracks of the European Symposium on Algorithms in 2007.

Research

Much of Welzl's research has been in computational geometry. With David Haussler, he showed that machinery from computational learning theory including ε-nets and VC dimension could be useful in geometric problems such as the development of space-efficient range searching data structures.{{citation | editor-last = Maurer | editor-first = H.

Awards and honors

Welzl won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1995. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 1998, as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, of the Academia Europaea in 2006, and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2007.

References

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