Mark Giesbrecht

Biography

Dr. Mark Giesbrecht is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Research Interest

Professor Giesbrecht's research interests are in the area of computer algebra, algebraic algorithms and computational complexity. He is a member of the Symbolic Computation Group in Waterloo, and a founding member of the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra with Waterloo and Western Ontario. He is an active participant in the computer algebra research community and has served as Program Committee Chair of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2013) and the Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ACM SIGSAM). His work focuses on many aspects of computer algebra, from the design and complexity analyses of fundamental algorithms for matrices and polynomials, to algorithms for approximate or symbolic-numeric problems, to the design of efficient generic software libraries for symbolic computation.