David Avis

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.

David Avis
David Avis in 1987
Born	David Michael Avis (1951-03-20) March 20, 1951 (age 74)
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Stanford University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	McGill University, Kyoto University
Doctoral advisor	Václav Chvátal

Avis received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Stanford University.^[1] 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]

Selected publications

AF92.

Avis, David; Fukuda, Komei (December 1992). "A pivoting algorithm for convex hulls and vertex enumeration of arrangements and polyhedra". Discrete and Computational Geometry. 8 (1): 295–313. doi:10.1007/BF02293050. MR 1174359.

AF96.

Avis, David; Fukuda, Komei (1996). "Reverse Search for Enumeration". Discrete Applied Mathematics. 65 (1–3): 21–46. doi:10.1016/0166-218x(95)00026-n.