David Avis, Date of Birth

David Avis

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1951

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

David Michael Avis (born March 20, 1951) is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations.
Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal.
Since 2010, he belongs to Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, School of Informatics, Kyoto University. Avis received his Ph.D.
in 1977 from Stanford University.
He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles.
Writing with Komei Fukuda, Avis proposed a reverse-search algorithm for the vertex enumeration problem; their algorithm generates all of the vertices of a convex polytope.[AF92][AF96]