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# Hanan Samet

## Professor

## Distinguished University Professor

Email: hjscs[.dot.]umd[.dot.]edu
Phone:
(301) 405-1755
Location:
IRB 4252
Website:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/
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Wikipedia Bio:
en.wikipedia.org
Education:

- Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975

Appointments:
CS, UMIACS, Cfar
Research Areas:
Algorithms and Theory, AI and Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Perception, Databases and Big Data, Graphics Visualization and VR AR, Information Retrieval and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning and Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Interest Areas:
data structures, image processing, computer graphics, databases, geographic information systems, computer vision

## Honors and Awards

Year | Type | Org. | Name
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2023 | Award | ACM | SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award For outstanding technical achievements and dedicated service in ACM SIGSPATIAL
2022 | Award |  | Pierre Bézier Award, Solid Modeling Association
2021 | Award |  | Pioneer, Solid Modelling Association
2020 | Award |  | Distinguished Career in Computer Science, Washington Academy of Sciences
2013 | UMD | UMD | Univ Maryland Distinguished University Professor
2012 | Award | ACM | Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award For fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing.
1996 | Fellow | ACM | ACM Fellow For research and contributions in the area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial data bases for computer graphics, image processing, geographic information systems, and robotics.
1996 | Fellow | IAPR | IAPR For contributions to hierarchical data structures for image analysis and representation
1991 | Fellow | IEEE | IEEE Fellow The area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial databases for computer graphics and image processing.