Otfried Cheong (; formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars)Reviews of Computational Geometry: and as the developer of Ipe, a vector graphics editor.Hlavacek, Jan (2006), "Ipe — a graphics editor with integration" (PDF), The PracTeX Journal (2)
Education Cheong completed his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Alt.
Career He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions at Utrecht University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Eindhoven University of Technology.Faculty profile at KAIST, retrieved 2017-02-20. Cheong was co-chair of the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2006, with Nina Amenta.Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Computational geometry, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2015-06-29.
Awards and honors In 2017, he was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery as an ACM Distinguished Member..
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