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Lars Arge

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Lars Allan Arge (8 October 1967 – 23 December 2020)[1][2] was a Danish computer scientist, the head of the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) at Aarhus University, where he was also a professor of computer science.[3] His research involved the study of algorithms and data structures for handling massive data, especially in graph algorithms and computational geometry.

Education and career

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Arge earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from Aarhus University, under the supervision of Erik Meineche Schmidt.[4] He next did a postdoc at Duke University until 1998. He then became a professor at Duke University before returning to Aarhus as a professor in 2004. He continued to hold an adjunct professorship at Duke.[5]

Awards and honors

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Arge was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; he was elected to the presidium of the academy in 2015,[6] and became secretary-general of the academy in 2016.[7] In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to massive data algorithmics", becoming only the second ACM Fellow in Denmark.[8][9] He also belonged to the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences [da].[5]

In 2015 he became a Knight First Class in the Order of the Dannebrog.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Grønbæk, Kaj (26 December 2020), In Memoriam: Professor Lars Arge, Aarhus University Department of Computer Science, retrieved 2020-12-26
  2. ^ CV (PDF), retrieved 2020-12-28
  3. ^ MADALGO, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  4. ^ Lars Arge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b Faculty home page, Aarhus University, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  6. ^ Rasmussen, Katrine Østerlund, Professor Lars Arge elected member of the presidium of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, MADALGO, archived from the original on 2015-06-14, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  7. ^ Holmgaard Jensen, Trine Ji (3 November 2016), Professor Lars Arge is new Secretary General of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Aarhus University, retrieved 2017-07-07
  8. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  9. ^ Professor Lars Arge named ACM Fellow, Aarhus University, 13 December 2012, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  10. ^ "Trine Ji Holmgaard Jensen" [Lars Arge rewarded Order of the Dannebrog] (in Danish), MADALGO, 25 August 2015, retrieved 2017-09-15
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