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Neil Frederick Stewart serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal. He joined the department in 1971 after teaching at the University of Guelph (1970-1971) and previously served as department director from 1983-1985.
His academic background includes undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of British Columbia (1964) and a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto (1968), which he believes was the third PhD in computer science proper awarded in Canada. His research focuses on algorithm design for subdivision surfaces in solid modeling, with applications in computer graphics and vision systems.
Professor Stewart's key research interests include:
- Parametric design
- Computer graphics
- Algorithm robustness
- Subdivision surfaces
- Computer vision
- Solid modeling
- Geometric modeling
His recent research has been funded by NSERC and MITACS, with projects spanning from subdivision surface methods (1994-2016) to Document AI algorithms (2023) and Transactional Fraud Detection (2022).
Throughout his career, Stewart has supervised numerous graduate students whose thesis work covers reliable solid modeling, geometric computation, and spatial deformation visualization. His laboratory work centers on robust computation for geometric models and subdivision surface applications in computer graphics.
