# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-chazelle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:20.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-chazelle"
name: "Bernard Chazelle"
slug: "bernard-chazelle"
description: "Bernard Chazelle is a French computer scientist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as major complexity results, such as lower bound techniques based on discrepancy theory. He is also known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known deterministic algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees."
tagline: "French computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bernard_Chazelle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.202345333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Chazelle"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Chazelle"
    title: "Bernard Chazelle"
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    title: "Bernard Chazelle"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump