Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Brown University. He is also Director of Brown's Center for Geometric Computing. His research focuses on information security, cryptography, algorithms, graph drawing, and computational geometry. He has authored six textbooks and over 250 publications, and his work has been funded by ARO, DARPA, NATO, NSF, and industry sponsors.

Education: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research Interests:

• Cryptography and Secure Systems
• Algorithm Design and Optimization
• Graph Drawing and Geometric Computing
• Encrypted Database Security

Awards and Honors:

• IEEE Fellow
• Technical Achievement Award from IEEE Computer Society
• Listed among the 360 most cited computer science authors by ISI

Grants and Funding: His research has been supported by major agencies and organizations including ARO, DARPA, and NSF, as well as industry partnerships.

Labs and Affiliations: Directs Brown's Center for Geometric Computing, a hub for interdisciplinary research in computational geometry and graph algorithms.