Pankaj K. Agarwal

Pankaj K. Agarwal
  • RJR Nabisco Professor of Computer Science in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  • Professor of Computer Science
  • Chair of Computer Science
  • Professor of Mathematics (Secondary)
  • Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative
  • Bass Fellow
External address: D315 Lev Sci Res Ctr, Durham, NC 27708
Internal office address: Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Phone: (919) 660-6548
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Computational and combinatorial geometry, computational biology, robotics, spatial databases, geographic molecular information systems, and data structures.

Education & Training

  • Ph.D., New York University 1989

  • M.S., University of California at Santa Cruz 1986

  • B.S.E.E., Indian Institute of Technology (India) 1982

Agarwal, P. K., et al. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface. Vol. 3692 LNBI, 2005.

Agarwal, P. K. “Simplex range searching and its variants: A review.” A Journey through Discrete Mathematics: A Tribute to Jiri Matousek, 2017, pp. 1–30. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44479-6_1. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K. “Range searching.” Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Third Edition, 2017, pp. 1057–92. Scopus, doi:10.1201/9781315119601. Full Text

Lowe, A., and P. K. Agarwal. “Flood-risk analysis on terrains under the multiflow-direction model.” Acm Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, Sept. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3340707. Full Text

Rav, M., et al. “Flood risk analysis on terrains.” Acm Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, May 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3295459. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., and J. Pan. “Near-Linear Algorithms for Geometric Hitting Sets and Set Covers.” Discrete and Computational Geometry, Jan. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s00454-019-00099-6. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “An efficient algorithm for computing high-quality paths amid polygonal obstacles.” Acm Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 14, no. 4, Aug. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3230650. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Range-max queries on uncertain data.” Journal of Computer and System Sciences, vol. 94, June 2018, pp. 118–34. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2017.09.006. Full Text

Agarwal, PK, Arge, L, and Staals, F. "Improved dynamic geodesic nearest neighbor searching in a simple polygon." Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics 99 (June 1, 2018): 41-414. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Convex Hulls Under Uncertainty.” Algorithmica, vol. 79, no. 2, Oct. 2017, pp. 340–67. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s00453-016-0195-y. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Nearest-Neighbor Searching Under Uncertainty I.” Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 58, no. 3, Oct. 2017, pp. 705–45. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s00454-017-9903-x. Full Text

Wu, Y., et al. “Computational fact checking through query perturbations.” Acm Transactions on Database Systems, vol. 42, no. 1, Jan. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.1145/2996453. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Nearest-neighbor searching under uncertainty II.” Acm Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.1145/2955098. Full Text

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Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Maintaining the union of unit discs under insertions with near-optimal overhead.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 129, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.26. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Efficient algorithms for geometric partial matching.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 129, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.6. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “An efficient algorithm for generalized polynomial partitioning and its applications.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 129, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.5. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Approximate minimum-weight matching with outliers under translation.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 123, 2018. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.26. Full Text

Lowe, A., and P. K. Agarwal. “Flood-risk analysis on terrains under the multiflow-direction model.” Gis: Proceedings of the Acm International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2018, pp. 53–62. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3274895.3274980. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Union of hypercubes and 3D minkowski sums with random sizes.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 107, 2018. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.10. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Computing the gromov-hausdorff distance for metric trees.” Acm Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 14, no. 2, 2018. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3185466. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Computing shortest paths in the plane with removable obstacles.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 101, 2018, pp. 51–515. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.5. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Subtrajectory clustering: Models and algorithms.” Proceedings of the Acm Sigact Sigmod Sigart Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, 2018, pp. 75–87. Scopus, doi:10.1145/3196959.3196972. Full Text

Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Maintaining reeb graphs of triangulated 2-manifolds.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 93, 2018. Scopus, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2017.8. Full Text

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