Lars Arge

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

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

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.[5]

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

References
  1. Grønbæk, Kaj, 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. 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 (November 3, 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, December 13, 2012, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  10. Trine Ji Holmgaard Jensen, Lars Arge rewarded Order of the Dannebrog, MADALGO, August 25, 2015, retrieved 2017-09-15
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