Bianca Falcidieno
Bianca Falcidieno is an Italian applied mathematician whose research interests include computer graphics, geometric modeling, Shape [analysis (digital geometry)|shape analysis], and mesh generation; she has been called a pioneer of semantics-driven shape representation. She is retired as a research director for the National [Research Council (Italy)|Italian National Research Council], where she led the Shape Modeling Group of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies.
Education and career
As a master's student, after earning a degree in mathematics in the 1970s, Falcidieno became interested in computer graphics and geometric modeling through a project to visualize mathematical functions for use in teaching mathematical analysis to engineering students. By 1981, she was a permanent researcher for CNR, and founded its first research center for computer graphics.In the 1990s, with Japanese researcher Tosiyasu Kunii, she helped found both the Shape Modeling International conference and the associated journal, the International [Journal of Shape Modeling], for which she was editor-in-chief.