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Esther Arkin

Esther Arkin is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist and a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University.

born 1958Metric for comparing polygon shapesLazy bureaucrat scheduling problemResearch in computational geometry

Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Stanford University

Esther Arkin was born in 1958

Esther Arkin was born in 1958. She grew up in Tel Aviv and attended Ironi Yud-Daled high school.

She completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Tel Aviv University in 1981. At Stanford University she earned a master's degree in operations research in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1986. Her doctoral thesis on cycle and path problems in graphs was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou.

From 1986 to 1991 she worked at Cornell University as a visiting professor. In 1991 she joined the faculty of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University, where she directs the undergraduate program. In 1995 she spent several months at Tel Aviv University as a visiting associate professor.

Her research covers operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization and algorithms. A 1989 paper she wrote with colleagues presented a metric for comparing polygon shapes, used in image search and computer vision. In 1999 she published a paper on scheduling tasks for a lazy bureaucrat. She is married to Joseph Mitchell, a computer science professor at Stony Brook.

Milestones in Esther Arkin's life

1958
Born.
1981
Completed a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University.
1983
Earned a master's degree at Stanford University.
1986
Completed her Ph.D. at Stanford and began working at Cornell University.
1989
Published a metric for comparing polygon shapes with colleagues.
1991
Joined the faculty of Stony Brook University.
1995
Worked for several months as a visiting associate professor at Tel Aviv University.
1999
Published a paper on the lazy bureaucrat scheduling problem.