Takao Nishizeki

Nishizeki was born in 1947 in Fukushima, and was a student at Tohoku University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1969, a master's in 1971, and a doctorate in 1974.[2] He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, from April 2008 to March 2010.[8] In 1996, he became a life fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to graph algorithms with applications to physical design of electronic systems."[9] In 1996 he was selected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms for planar graphs, network flows and VLSI routing".[10] Nishizeki was also a foreign fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences;[11] one of his students and frequent co-authors, Md.
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