Franco P. Preparata

2014 Distinguished Academic Achievement Alumni Award

A CS @ ILLINOIS professor from 1966 to 1990, Franco P. Preparata literally wrote the book on computational geometry (Computational Geometry: An Introduction; Springer, 1985). His outstanding research contributions span coding theory, distributed computing, fault diagnosis, VLSI, and computational biology, while many of his students have gone on to highly successful careers around the globe.