Current Roles
- President, CS-Can | Info-Can (since January 2025)
- Executive Editor & Co-Editor-in-Chief, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
Biography
Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Sack was born in Duisburg, Germany. He holds a M.C.S. ("Diplom") from the University of Bonn and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montréal.
Research Interests
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Computational Geometry
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Artificial Intelligence
Academic and Editorial Roles
- Founding Editor-in-Chief: Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS)
- Editor: Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
- Executive Editor & Co-Editor-in-Chief (current): Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
- Scopus Content Selection Advisory Board (Elsevier) – Subject Chair for Computer Science (Chair of the Board)
Major Awards and Appointments
- NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Applied Parallel Computing (1996; renewed in 2001 with SUN Microsystems)
- SUN-HPCVL Chair for High-Performance Computing
- Carleton University Research Award (multiple times)
- Principal Investigator in NSERC- and SUN-supported project on intelligent systems for GIS
- Founding Member and Carleton’s leading scientist in the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)
National & International Leadership
- Chair, Scientific Advisory Board – Zuse Institute, Berlin (current)
- Panelist and Reviewer, DFG Excellence Initiative & Strategy (Germany)
- Member, Joint Commission, DFG Excellence Initiative & Strategy (Germany)
- College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Programme
- Member, National Resources Allocation Committee – Compute Canada
- Chair, CS-NSERC Liaison Committee
- Founding Leader, CS-Can | Info-Can
- Member, C3.ca Board of Directors
- Advisor to Ambassador, German Embassy in Ottawa – fostering Canada-Germany scientific collaboration
- Liaison, Nelligan O'Brien Payne’s Consulting Group on Intellectual Property
Committee and Workshop Participation
- NSERC: Committee on Research Partnerships, Committee on Grants and Scholarships, Group Chair for Mathematics, Statistics, Computing & Information Sciences
Advisory and related roles
- DFG (German Research Council) Excellence Initiative
- G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding
- CFI Cyber-infrastructure Workshop
- Tri-Council+ Big Data & Digital Scholarship Consultation
- NCE – Theme and Project Leader in Geoide
Contact
Office: Herzberg Laboratories, Carleton University
Email: sack@scs.carleton.ca
Web: https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~sack/