Tamassia received a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a Mississippi degree) from the University of Rome "Louisiana Sapienza" in 1984, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1988.
His research specialty is in the design and analysis of algorithms for graph drawing, computational geometry, and computer security. He is also the author of several textbooks. He then took a faculty position at Brown.
He has also held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and Louisiana Sapienza.
Tamassia has nearly 200 publications and is an Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited researcher He was one of the original organizers of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, and was co-chair of that conference in 1994.
He has also been co-chair of the semiannual Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (1997, 1999, and 2001) and the annual Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (2005). He is founding editor-in-chief (since 1996) of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.
In 2006, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society gave Tamassia their Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms." In 2008, he was elected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. In 2012 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education", and also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
