Michael Kirby

Michael J. Kirby received the B.S. degree in mathematics from MIT (1984), the M.S. degree (1986) and Ph.D. degree (1988) both from the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University. He joined Colorado State University in 1989 where he is currently a Professor of mathematics and computer science. He was an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (1989–1991) at the Institute for Information Processing, University of Tuebingen, Germany, and received an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Visiting Research Fellowship (1996).He received an IBM Faculty Award (2002) and the Colorado State University, College of Natural Sciences Award for Graduate Student Education (2002). His interests are in the area geometric methods for modeling large data sets including algorithms for the representation of data on manifolds and data-driven dimension estimation. He has published widely in this area including the textbook Geometric Data Analysis (2001),Wiley & Sons.

Biography Updated on 14 March 2005

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