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Tamal K. Dey publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tamal K. Dey sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 218 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Tamal K. Dey D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tamal K. Dey sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computational geometry and computational topology
  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to geometric computing

Overview

Tamal K. Dey is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly focusing on computational theory and mathematics. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields, including computational topology, plant science, mathematical physics, molecular biology, and biophysics.

The primary research topics associated with their work include:

  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Smart Agriculture and AI
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Among recent papers, Tamal K. Dey has authored works such as:

  • "Unusual Hypermucoviscous Clinical Isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae with No Known Determinants of Hypermucoviscosity," published in 2022 by Microbiology Spectrum
  • "Generalized persistence algorithm for decomposing multiparameter persistence modules," published in 2022 by the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
  • "Computational Topology for Data Analysis," published in 2022 as Cambridge University Press eBooks

Other notable recent publications, although not authored by Dey but related by association or co-authors, include "Topological Deep Learning: Going Beyond Graph Data," published in 2022 in arXiv (Cornell University), and "Predicting the optimum harvesting dates for different exotic apple varieties grown under North Western Himalayan regions through acoustic and machine vision techniques," published in 2023 by Food Chemistry X.

Frequent collaboration has been a feature of Dey's research, with notable co-authors including:

  • Yusu Wang
  • Gopinath Bej
  • Abhra Pal
  • Amitava Akuli
  • Sabyasachi Majumdar

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • American Journal Of Advanced Computing
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Tamal K. Dey has been recognized with several awards for contributions to the fields of computational geometry and computational topology, including being named an ACM Fellow in 2018 and an IEEE Fellow in 2017.

Best Publications

  • A SIMPLE ALGORITHM FOR HOMEOMORPHIC SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION

    Nina Amenta;Sunghee Choi;Tamal K. Dey;Naveen Leekha

  • Tight Cocone: A Water-tight Surface Reconstructor

    Tamal K. Dey;Samrat Goswami

  • Provable surface reconstruction from noisy samples

    Tamal K. Dey;Samrat Goswami

  • Approximate medial axis as a Voronoi subcomplex

    Tamal K. Dey;Wulue Zhao

  • Delaunay Mesh Generation

    Siu-Wing Cheng;Tamal K. Dey;Jonathan Shewchuk

  • Curve and Surface Reconstruction: Algorithms with Mathematical Analysis

    Tamal K. Dey

  • Silver exudation

    Siu-Wing Cheng;Tamal K. Dey;Herbert Edelsbrunner;Michael A. Facello

  • Delaunay based shape reconstruction from large data

    T.K. Dey;J. Giesen;J. Hudson

  • Improved Bounds for Planar k -Sets and Related Problems

    Tamal K. Dey

  • Defining and computing curve-skeletons with medial geodesic function

    Tamal K. Dey;Jian Sun

  • Sampling and Meshing a Surface with Guaranteed Topology and Geometry

    Siu-Wing Cheng;Tamal K. Dey;Edgar A. Ramos;Tathagata Ray

  • Shape Segmentation and Matching with Flow Discretization

    Tamal K. Dey;Joachim Giesen;Samrat Goswami

  • Dynamic skin triangulation

    Ho-Lun Cheng;Tamal K. Dey;Herbert Edelsbrunner;John Sullivan

  • Approximating the Medial Axis from the Voronoi Diagram with a Convergence Guarantee

    Tamal K. Dey;Wulue Zhao

  • Detecting undersampling in surface reconstruction

    Tamal K. Dey;Joachim Giesen

  • Convex decomposition of polyhedra and robustness

    Chanderjit L. Bajaj;Tamal K. Dey

  • Delaunay Refinement for Piecewise Smooth Complexes

    Siu-Wing Cheng;Tamal K. Dey;Edgar A. Ramos

  • A simple provable algorithm for curve reconstruction

    Tamal K. Dey;Piyush Kumar

  • Curve reconstruction: connecting dots with good reason

    Tamal K. Dey;Edgar A. Ramos;Kurt Mehlhorn

  • Persistent Heat Signature for Pose-oblivious Matching of Incomplete Models

    Tamal K. Dey;Kuiyu Li;Chuanjiang Luo;Pawas Ranjan

  • Curve and Surface Reconstruction: Algorithms with Mathematical Analysis (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics)

    Tamal K. Dey

Frequent Co-Authors

Yusu Wang
Yusu Wang University of California, San Diego
Siu-Wing Cheng
Siu-Wing Cheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jian Sun
Jian Sun Megvii
Herbert Edelsbrunner
Herbert Edelsbrunner Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Boris Aronov
Boris Aronov New York University
Samit K. Ray
Samit K. Ray Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Chandrajit L. Bajaj
Chandrajit L. Bajaj The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk University of California, Berkeley
Nina Amenta
Nina Amenta University of California, Davis
Marian Mrozek
Marian Mrozek Jagiellonian University

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