Otfried Cheong ( Korean: 오트프리드 정; formerly Otfried Schwarzkopf) is a German computational geometer working in South Korea at KAIST. He is known as one of the authors of the widely used computational geometry textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, and Mark Overmars) ^[1] and as the developer of Ipe, a vector graphics editor.

Cheong completed his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1992 under the supervision of Helmut Alt. ^[2] He joined KAIST in 2005, after previously holding positions at Utrecht University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Eindhoven University of Technology. ^[3] Cheong was co-chair of the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2006, with Nina Amenta. ^[4] In 2017 he was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Scientist. ^[5]

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