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I have been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998, with tenure since 2004. I've been in the department longer than 80% of the faculty; eventually that will no longer surprise me. I am also an affiliate of the Computational Science and Engineering program, a member of the steering committee for the Applied Mathematics Program, and a member of the Center for Process Simulation and Design at UIUC.I'm a computational geometer/topologist. I'm the area chair of the CS department's algorithms group. I teach theory classes. I'm a faculty senator. I apply mathematics. I talk to myself. I am a twit. Im in ur graffs, dulizing yr homaloogy. I like pancakes.
I was affiliated with six other universities before I came to UIUC. In previous non-academic lives, I wrote Macintosh and Apple //gs software, spun records at a college radio station, and taught knot tying at Boy Scout summer camp. I still dislike Microsoft, I still listen to weird music, and I still tie my shoes faster than most people. I have the lowest undergraduate GPA (2.4/4.0) of any professor I've ever met, but some of my colleagues came close. I really shouldn't be proud of that.
There are a bunch of other people with my name. I'm not them.
It must be possible to replace in all geometric statements the words point, line, plane by table, chair, beer mug.- David Hilbert, on the axiomatic method in mathematicsI believe in the third dimension, but not the other two.
Jeff Erickson (jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu) 21 Jul 2010