Benjamin Raichel

Benjamin Raichel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, affiliated with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on computational geometry and geometric approximation algorithms, with contributions to areas such as Voronoi diagrams, Fréchet distance, clustering, and algorithmic efficiency. Dr. Raichel holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Sariel Har-Peled. He currently teaches Computational Geometry (CS 6319) and has advised multiple PhD students, including Md. Billal Hossain and Jonathan James Perry. His work is supported by NSF grants such as 'Shape Matching in a Messy World Using Fréchet Distance' and 'Metric Violation Distance: Hardness and Approximation.' He is a member of the Algorithms and Theory Group at UT Dallas.