Frank Nielsen is a computer scientist working on computational and information geometry. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2026 for his "contributions to geometric information theory and information measures". He received his PhD from Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis under the supervision of Jean-Daniel Boissonnat.
He is known for his work on statistical region merging, as well as his contributions to information geometry including several introductory writings about the topic.
Books Computational Information Geometry, 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. A Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java, 2009, Springer London. Introduction to HPC with MPI for Data Science, 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Matrix Information Geometry, 2012, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. Visual Computing: Geometry, Graphics, And Vision (Graphics Series), 2005, Charles River Media, Inc.
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