Faculty - Dr. Benoit Hudon
PhD - Carnegie Mellon University
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Hudson hails from New Brunswick, Canada; from there he went to Brown University to receive an Sc.B. in 1999, worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center for two years, and was awarded his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.
His main interests have been around the development of scientific tools from the point of view computer science, particularly computational geometry. Most recently, he has been developing algorithms for mesh refinement: producing meshes on which one can run finite element simulations, with an emphasis on mathematically proving that the algorithms always work, and always are fast, in addition to being both good and fast in practice. At NASA he worked on Livingstone- a planning and scheduling software for spacecraft currently in orbit on EO-1- and on the hcc language for modeling hybrid-dynamics systems.
Dr. Hudson also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.tti-c.org/hudson