Carola Wenk
Department Chair at Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolCarola Wenk is a professor and current Department Chair of Computer Science at Tulane University with a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, specializing in computational geometry and shape-matching algorithms. She is a leading expert on the Fréchet distance and has established theoretical foundations for map-matching GPS trajectories and road network comparison that bridge theory and practice. Her work ranges from pure algorithmic and topological analysis to interdisciplinary applications in geospatial intelligence, intelligent transportation, biomedical imaging, and computational biology. An NSF CAREER awardee with research supported by NSF, NIH, and DARPA, she combines deep mathematical training in mathematics and computer science with sustained academic leadership across multiple institutions. Based in New Orleans, she balances administrative leadership with active research and a track record of award-winning teaching and service.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Freie Universität BerlinProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
doogrammargood/Wigner-Function-Calculator
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
Rahgooy/indep_num
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:25 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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