{{Short description|French computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Jean-Daniel Boissonnat |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|05|18|df=y}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Computer science |work_institutions = Inria |alma_mater = Supelec |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = Monique Teillaud |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Jean-Daniel Boissonnat''' (born 18 May 1953) is a French computer scientist, who works as a director of research at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA).<ref>[https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Jean-Daniel.Boissonnat/ Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2017-01-13.</ref> He is an invited professor of computational geometry at the Collège de France, holding the Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences for 2016–2017.<ref>[http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-annual-chairs-previous/Chair-in-Informatics-and-Computational-Sciences.htm Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences], Collège de France, retrieved 2017-01-13.</ref>

Boissonat was one of the founders of the CGAL project for implementing geometric algorithms. With Mariette Yvinec, he is the author of the book ''Algorithmic Geometry'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998, translated from a 1995 edition in French).<ref>Reviews of ''Algorithmic Geometry'': *{{citation|title=none|first=S.|last=Stifter|journal=zbMATH|zbl=0917.68212}} *{{citation|title=none|last=Hecker|first=Hans-Dietrich|journal=Mathematical Reviews|year=1999|mr=1631175}} *{{citation|last=McMullen|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter McMullen|date=November 1999|doi=10.1112/blms/31.6.758|issue=6|journal=Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society|pages=758–759|title=none|volume=31}}</ref> With Yvinec and Frédéric Chazal, he is the coauthor of ''Geometric and Topological Inference'' (Cambridge University Press, 2018).<ref>Reviews of ''Geometric and Topological Inference'': *{{citation|title=none|first=Henry Hugh|last=Adams|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=3837127}} *{{citation|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/geometric-and-topological-inference-0|date=April 2019|first=Michael|last=Berg|journal=MAA Reviews|access-date=2021-05-23|archive-date=2021-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523070352/https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/geometric-and-topological-inference-0|url-status=dead}} *{{citation|last=Hunacek|first=Mark|date=February 2021|doi=10.1017/mag.2021.37|issue=562|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|pages=184–185|title=none|volume=105}} *{{citation|title=none|first=Kévin Allan Sales|last=Rodrigues|journal=zbMATH|zbl=1457.62006}}</ref> == Awards and honours == * 1987: IBM award in Computer Science<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, a life of research dedicated to geometry {{!}} Inria |url=https://www.inria.fr/en/jean-daniel-boissonnat-life-research-dedicated-geometry |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=www.inria.fr}}</ref> * 2006: EADS award in Information Sciences<ref name=":0" /> * 2006: Knight of National Order of Merit<ref name=":0" /> * 2013: ANR Digital Technology Award<ref name=":0" />

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