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| name = Chandrajit Bajaj<br />
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}<br />
| birth_place = [[India]]<br />
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| citizenship = {{flagicon|USA}} USA<br />
| field = [[Computer science]]<br />
| work_institution = [[The University of Texas at Austin]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Cornell University]]<br />
| doctoral_advisor = [[John Edward Hopcroft]]<br />
| doctoral_students = {{plainlist|1=<br />
*[[Tamal Dey]]<br />
*[[Yongjie Jessica Zhang]]<br />
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'''Chandrajit Bajaj''' (born 1958 in Calcutta, India) is an American [[computer scientist]]. He is a Professor of [[computer sciences|Computer science]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the [[Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences]] (ICES).<br />
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==Career==<br />
Dr. Bajaj studied Computer Science at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] and obtained his BTech degree in 1980.<ref name="Vitae"/> From there he went on to [[Cornell University]], where he obtained his Masters and PhD in Computer Science, in 1983 and 1984, respectively.<ref name="Vitae">{{cite web|title= Chandrajit Bajaj's Curriculum Vitae |url= http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bajaj/Bajaj-CV.pdf |accessdate= 7 July 2011}}</ref> He held a faculty position in computer science at [[Purdue University]] from 1984–1997,<ref name="PurdueInfo">{{cite web |title= Purdue University Department of Computer Science Annual Report 1997 |url= http://www.cs.purdue.edu/about_us/annual_reports/97/faculty/bajaj.html |access-date= 25 June 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080908042930/http://www.cs.purdue.edu/about_us/annual_reports/97/faculty/bajaj.html |archive-date= 8 September 2008 |url-status= dead }}</ref> a visiting assistant professorship in Computer Sciences at Cornell University from 1990–1991,<ref name="Vitae"/> and was the Director of the Image Analysis and Visualization Center at Purdue University from 1996–1997.<ref name="Vitae"/> Since 1997, he has been a professor of Computer Sciences, the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair of Visualization, and the director of the Computational Visualization Center at The University of Texas at Austin.<ref name="Vitae"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Computational Visualization Center |url=https://www.ices.utexas.edu/research/centers-groups/cvc/ | publisher=The University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences | accessdate=24 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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Bajaj's research has been in the fields of [[computational biology]], [[geometric modeling]], image processing, [[computational geometry]], [[computer graphics]], compression, [[mesh generation]], [[computational science|scientific computation]], and [[computer graphics|visualization]].<br />
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Bajaj is a current Editorial Board member for the ''ACM Computing Surveys'',<ref>[http://csur.acm.org/Editors.html Editorial Board] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223324/http://csur.acm.org/Editors.html |date=24 July 2011 }}, ACM Computing Surveys</ref> the ''International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications'',<ref>[http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcga/mkt/editorial.shtml Editorial Board], International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications</ref> and the ''SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences''.<ref>[http://www.siam.org/journals/siims/board.php Editorial Board], SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences</ref> He has been an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics.<ref>[http://portalparts.acm.org/1190000/1189762/fm/frontmatter.pdf Front Matter], ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26 Issue 1, January 2007</ref> Bajaj served as the conference program chair or co-chair for the ACM [[Symposium on Computational Geometry]] in 2002<ref>[http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/socg2002.html Homepage] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044633/http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/socg2002.html |date=20 July 2011 }}, 2002 Symposium on Computational Geometry</ref> and the SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling in 2011.<ref>[http://www.siam.org/meetings/gdspm11/ Homepage], 2011 SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
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Bajaj has been selected as a fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (2009)<ref>[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=5216692&srt=year&year=2009 ACM Fellows], Chandrajit Bajaj</ref> and the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (2008).<ref>[http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/ Fellows], American Association of the Advancement of Sciences</ref> His research has been awarded the Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award in 2011.<ref>[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/news-events/news/2011/drug-design-receives-private-grand-challenge-research-funds Drug Design Receives Private Grand Challenge Research Funds]</ref><br />
Several of his publications have been selected for best paper awards including Computer Aided Design<ref>[http://www.cadanda.com/Bestpapers.html Best Paper Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903102608/http://www.cadanda.com/Bestpapers.html |date=3 September 2011 }}, Computer-Aided Design</ref> and the 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling.<ref>[https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/spm2010/ Homepage], 2010 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling</ref><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
Bajaj has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scholarly journals<ref name="Vitae"/> as well authoring or editing several books listed below.<br />
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===Books===<br />
*{{cite book|editor=C. Bajaj|title=Algebraic Geometry and its Applications|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1994|isbn=978-0-387-94176-9}}<br />
*{{cite book|author1=J. Bloomenthal |author2=C. Bajaj |author3=J. Blinn |author4=M. Gascuel |author5=A. Rockwood |author6=B. Wyvill |author7=G. Wyvill |year=1997|title=Introduction to Implicit Surfaces|publisher=[[Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.]]}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Data Visualization Techniques|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=1998|editor=C. Bajaj}}<br />
*{{cite book|editor1=C. Christensen |editor2=G. Sunderam |editor3=A. Sathaye |editor4=C. Bajaj |title=Algebra, Arithmetic and Geometry with Applications|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=2004}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite web | url = http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bajaj | title = Chandrajit Bajaj | publisher = Department of Computer Sciences, [[The University of Texas at Austin]] | accessdate = 7 July 2011}}<br />
* {{cite web | url = http://cvcweb.ices.utexas.edu | title = Computational Visualization Center | publisher = [[Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences]], [[The University of Texas at Austin]] | accessdate = 7 July 2011}}<br />
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