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Klara Kedem

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Klara Kedem
Alma materTel Aviv University
Known forComputational geometry, shape comparison, motion planning, Voronoi diagrams
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Cornell University
Doctoral advisorMicha Sharir

Klara Kedem is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel[1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[2]

Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.[3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison,[ACH] motion planning,[KLP] and Voronoi diagrams.[HKS] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic.[4]

Selected publications

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HKS.
Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Sharir, Micha (1993), "The upper envelope of Voronoĭ surfaces and its applications", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 9 (3): 267–291, doi:10.1007/BF02189323, MR 1204784, Zbl 0770.68111, EuDML 131248
ACH.
Arkin, Esther M.; Chew, L. Paul; Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Mitchell, Joseph S. B. (1991), "An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes" (PDF), IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 13 (3): 209–216, doi:10.1109/34.75509, hdl:1813/8729, S2CID 8247618, Zbl 0800.68949
KLP.
Kedem, Klara; Livné, Ron; Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 1 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1007/BF02187683, MR 0824108, Zbl 0594.52004, EuDML 130981

References

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  1. ^ Faculty listing, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
  2. ^ Faculty listing, Cornell University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
  3. ^ Klara Kedem at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Fisher, Hannah (August 12, 2009), "Algorithms help unravel the secrets of ancient documents. B-G University project discovers Hebrew prayers under Arabic lettering", Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on October 11, 2014.
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