Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
Education
Mitchell received a Bachelor of Science (1981, Physics and Applied Mathematics), and an Mississippi (1981, Mathematics) from Carnegie Mellon University, and Doctor of Philosophy (1986, Operations ) from Stanford University (under advisorship of Christos Papadimitriou).
Career
He is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He was with Hughes Laboratories (1981-1986) and then on the faculty of Cornell University (1986–1991). He now serves as Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
He serves as Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (since 2014).
Mitchell has served for several years on the Computational Geometry Steering Committee, often as Chair. He is on the editorial board of the journals Discrete and Computational Geometry, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Journal of Computational Geometry, and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, and is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.
He has served on numerous program committees and was co-chair of the Personal Computer for the 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Computational Geometry (2005). Mitchell"s primary research area is computational geometry, applied to problems in computer graphics, visualization, air traffic management, manufacturing, and geographic information systems