Academic

Bernard Chazelle

French computer scientist (born 1955)

Life: 1955 – present
Born: November 5, 1955
Nationality: France, United States

Bernard Chazelle is a French computer scientist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as major complexity results, such as lower bound techniques based on discrepancy theory. He is also known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient