Chee Yap#
| Membership Number: | 5002 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://cs.nyu.edu/yap |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2952-3545 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989 - present Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute, New York University, USA
- 1986 - 1989 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute, New York University, USA
- 1981 - 1986 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute, New York University, USA
- 1979 - 1981 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California, USA
- Sep 2018 - Jan 2019 Visiting Professor at Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
- Apr-Jul 2018 CAS President's International Visiting Scientist Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
- Oct 2017 - Mar 2018 Visiting Professor at SMS Center, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning, China
- Aug 2009 - Jul 2010 Visiting Professor at Oxford University, Oxford, UK
- 2006 - 2009 KIAS Scholar at Korea Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
- Sep 2003 - Jun 2004 Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Sep 1995 - Jun 1996 Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer algebra and symbolic-numeric computation
- Robotics
- Visualization
- Theory of algorithms
- Exact computation
- Complexity theory
- Computational geometry
Honours and Awards
- 2018 CAS President's International Visiting Scientist Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
- 2006 - 2009 KIAS Scholar, Korea Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
- 2007 Lecturer, Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
- 1993 ACM Recognition of Service Award, General Chair of the 9th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry
- 1991 Lecturer, NSF/LaSER Distinguished Lecture Series on Robotics and AI, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
- 1990 Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America (shared with J. Goodman and J. Pach)
- 1988 Fulbright Scholar Award, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State, USA
- 1987 ACM Recognition of Service Award, Program Committee Chair of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry
- 1975 ACM George Forsythe Award (second prize, student paper competition)
- 1975 Phi Beta Kappa, MIT, USA
- 1975 Eta Kappa Nu, MIT, USA
- 1971 Director of Studies Prize, Boys' Wing, Royal Military College, Malaysia (top academic award)
