Ileana Streinu
About
Ileana Streinu's research interests includes combinatorial and computational geometry, in particular geometric algorithms (visibility, motion planning), rigidity theory, oriented matroids and pseudolines, graph theory, robust computation, and complexity of geometric algorithms, with applications in: computational molecular biology (protein structure and folding processes), computer graphics, robotics and graph drawing.
Streinu joined the faculty at Smith College in 1994 and became adjunct professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst in 2002.
Streinu was program committee member for the 14th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, at MIT, Nov. 19-20, 2004. She was the co-organizer (with Jack Snoeyink) of Geometry of Protein Modeling, a special session at the American Math Society Regional Meeting 997, Rider University, Lawrenceville, N.J., April 17-18, 2004; and was the organizer of the Workshop on the Geometry of Modeling Proteins at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Barbados, Jan. 16-23, 2004. In a 2006 ceremony marking its 140th anniversary, the Romanian Academy awarded Streinu the George Moisil Award, their highest recognition in the area of theoretical computer science, for a paper published in 2004.