Jeff Erickson

I have been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. I've been in the department longer than 75% of the faculty, including half of the full professors. Eventually that will no longer surprise me.

I'm a computational geometer/topologist. I'm the senior member (but no longer area chair) of the CS department's algorithms group. I teach CS theory classes. I'm a wannabe mathematician. Despite all warnings to the contrary, I am writing a book. I talk to myself, but not quite as much as I used to (at least in public). 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 (how quaint), 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.