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Hanan Samet received his B.S. in engineering from UCLA, and his M.S. and PhD. in computer science from Stanford University. In 1975, he joined the UMD Computer Science Department where he remains a professor. He is also a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory of the Center for Automation Research where he leads numerous research projects on the use of hierarchical spatial data structures including:
- Quadtrees and octrees,
- the SAND system (which integrates spatial and non-spatial data),
- the SAND Spatial Browser (which uses a graphical user interface to browse a spatial database),
- the VASCO spatial indexing applet, and
- a symbolic image database system.
Samet's research interests include data structures, computer graphics, geographic information systems (GIS), computer vision, robotics, programming languages, artificial intelligence and database management systems.
A personal webpage is available.
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