John Moeller

I'm a Ph.D. student at the School of Computing at the University of Utah. I work with Suresh Venkatasubramanian doing research in algorithms and computational geometry (mostly computational geometry).

My current research interests could be summed up as: "non-Euclidean computational geometry." What that means in practice is that I look into basic computational-geometric notions that we're accustomed to in Euclidean space and attempt to apply them on general Riemannian manifolds.

An example of such manifolds is the well-researched class of hyperbolic spaces. Another, and the space that I'm most concerned with currently, is the space of positive-definite matrices; at times it seems like a profane chimera of Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces.

I earned my B.S. in mathematics from the University of Utah in 1999. I then worked for about 10 years in the software and networking industries writing and fixing code, before deciding to take the plunge into research.