Klara Kedem

Klara Kedem (Hebrew: קלרה קדם) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel^[1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.^[2]

Klara Kedem
קלרה קדם
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University
Known for	Computational geometry, shape comparison, motion planning, Voronoi diagrams
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Micha Sharir

Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.^[3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison,^[ACH] motion planning,^[KLP] and Voronoi diagrams.^[HKS] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic.^[4]

Selected publications

HKS.	Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Sharir, Micha (1993), "The upper envelope of Voronoĭ surfaces and its applications", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 9 (3): 267–291, doi:10.1007/BF02189323, MR 1204784, Zbl 0770.68111, EuDML 131248

ACH.

Arkin, Esther M.; Chew, L. Paul; Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Mitchell, Joseph S. B. (1991), "An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes" (PDF), IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 13 (3): 209–216, doi:10.1109/34.75509, hdl:1813/8729, S2CID 8247618, Zbl 0800.68949

KLP.	Kedem, Klara; Livné, Ron; Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 1 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1007/BF02187683, MR 0824108, Zbl 0594.52004, EuDML 130981