Dianna Xu
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Yilun Dianna Xu is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns the computational geometry of curves and surfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics. She is a professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College where she chairs the computer science department.[1]
Xu graduated from Smith College in 1996, with a bachelor's degree in computer science.[1] She credits going to a women's college with the nurturing environment that allowed her to become interested in computer science.[2]
She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation, Incremental Algorithms for the Design of Triangular-Based Spline Surfaces, was supervised by Jean Gallier.[3] After staying at Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher, she joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 2004.[1]
