Joseph S. B. Mitchell

Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Joe Mitchell at SoCG 2011
Residence	United States
Fields	Theoretical Computer Science Computational Geometry Applied Mathematics Operations Research
Institutions	Stony Brook University Cornell University
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Christos Papadimitriou
Known for	Computational geometry
Notable awards	Gödel Prize (2010)

Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.

Mitchell received a BS (1981, Physics and Applied Mathematics), and an MS (1981, Mathematics) from Carnegie Mellon University, and Ph.D. (1986, Operations Research) from Stanford University (under advisorship of Christos Papadimitriou). He was with Hughes Research Laboratories (1981–86) and then on the faculty of Cornell University (1986–1991). He now serves as Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He serves as Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (since 2014).

Mitchell has served for several years on the Computational Geometry Steering Committee, often as Chair. He is on the editorial board of the journals Discrete and Computational Geometry,Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications,Journal of Computational Geometry, and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, and is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. He has served on numerous program committees and was co-chair of the PC for the 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (2005).