Biography

Meng He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science in Dalhousie University, where he has been a faculty member since September 2011. He obtained his PhD from University of Waterloo in June 2008. Prior to joining Dalhousie University, he had held postdoctoral and research positions in Carleton University and University of Waterloo.

Meng He’s research areas are algorithms, data structures and computational geometry, and his research has been focused on the design of algorithms and data structures for large data sets. By 2012, He has authored twenty-nine peer-reviewed publications on this subject, including papers in top journals and conferences such as ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), and the International Colloquium on Automata, Language, and Programming (ICALP). Dr. He is presently serving as a program committee member of the 24th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM'13) and a co-chair of the program committee of the 26th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG'14).